The African island is currently battling its largest-ever outbreak of the virus formerly known as monkeypox

Hundreds of thousands fleeing the war in Sudan fight for food and water in eastern Chad, where conditions have moved beyond breaking point

Post-traumatic stress disorder in the general population has increased by 70 per cent following the October 7 attacks

More than 200 people headed for DRC’s capital Kinshasa are detained following the death of a passenger who had already disembarked

Changing patterns in fish stocks may drive uninfected migrating seals into rabid populations

New cases have doubled in some hotspots over the past week, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warns

Beneath the streets of London, native British mosquitoes are being bred for the first time to help scientists get ahead of disease threats

More than a third of the country’s population requires urgent food assistance. Malnourished mothers and children bear the brunt

As millions of creatures are poached for the Asian traditional medicine market, rescuers scramble to preserve a vulnerable marine population

Volunteers in Oxford are testing an experimental jab against an ancient killer

Trials show Lenacapavir can all but eliminate infection. Yet in the Latin American countries where it was tested almost no one can get it

At least a dozen facilities have now been attacked since Congo declared its outbreak

It is possible to break the cycle that has left much of the world waiting years for new antibiotics

Vaccine candidate is a Bundibugyo version of the Ervebo shot, which has already been approved for Ebola Zaire

Developers say the phone-based tool, which advises medics on how to prescribe antibiotics, has already helped raise the quality of care

The epidemic has been linked to Clade 1b mpox, a strain that emerged in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Executive director of the UN body tells the Telegraph that claims made by the world’s richest man were born of ignorance

Review of the continent’s health security finds that investments since Covid-19 have ‘paid off’

Dozens of fatalities are being recorded each day in what could become the worst ever outbreak of the haemorrhagic fever

Missiles hit facility holding 62 million prevention items earmarked for the country’s harm reduction programmes