Exclusive: Sir Jeremy Farrar, who advised the government on Covid, resigns after helping to implement job cuts at global body

After decades of progress, infections are increasing – and almost all cases coincide with large populations of stray dogs

The debate highlights the difficulties involved in designing and running trials during a medical emergency

After a century of perfecting antivenom, Brazil’s Butantan Institute is sharing its life-saving snake research with the world

After a century of perfecting antivenom, Brazil’s Butantan Institute is sharing its life-saving snake research with the world

Tasmanian devils, platypus and dingoes all at risk of contracting the highly contagious bird flu as the country battles growing case numbers

Congo’s current epidemic is on track to eclipse the West African Ebola outbreak of 2014 to 2016

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

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

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