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Rabies deaths are rising. What is going wrong?
After decades of progress, infections are increasing – and almost all cases coincide with large populations of stray dogs
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Ebola doctors ‘step back’ from WHO in drug trial ethics row
The debate highlights the difficulties involved in designing and running trials during a medical emergency
Wildfire watch: Inside London’s fire control centre on the hottest day of the year
A summer of record-breaking heatwaves has turned the capital into a tinderbox
Inside the biggest collection of venomous snakes in Latin America
After a century of perfecting antivenom, Brazil’s Butantan Institute is sharing its life-saving snake research with the world
Inside the biggest collection of venomous snakes in Latin America
After a century of perfecting antivenom, Brazil’s Butantan Institute is sharing its life-saving snake research with the world
H5N1 sparks a very Australian epidemic
Tasmanian devils, platypus and dingoes all at risk of contracting the highly contagious bird flu as the country battles growing case numbers
Ebola outbreak ‘doubling every 20 days’, warns UN chief
Congo’s current epidemic is on track to eclipse the West African Ebola outbreak of 2014 to 2016
Madagascar forced to divide and share mpox vaccine as epidemic takes off
The African island is currently battling its largest-ever outbreak of the virus formerly known as monkeypox
Sudan exodus threatens humanitarian catastrophe in Chad
Hundreds of thousands fleeing the war in Sudan fight for food and water in eastern Chad, where conditions have moved beyond breaking point
Israel’s mental health time bomb
Post-traumatic stress disorder in the general population has increased by 70 per cent following the October 7 attacks
Suspected Ebola case on packed Congo river boat sparks testing rush
More than 200 people headed for DRC’s capital Kinshasa are detained following the death of a passenger who had already disembarked
El Nino could cause explosion of rabid seals, animal health experts warn
Changing patterns in fish stocks may drive uninfected migrating seals into rabid populations
Ebola outbreak outpacing containment effort, WHO chief warns
New cases have doubled in some hotspots over the past week, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warns
The underground lab where ‘princess mosquitoes’ are treated like royalty
Beneath the streets of London, native British mosquitoes are being bred for the first time to help scientists get ahead of disease threats
What I saw in a week on the front line of Afghanistan’s hunger crisis
More than a third of the country’s population requires urgent food assistance. Malnourished mothers and children bear the brunt
World’s first seahorse hospital fights to protect them from extinction
As millions of creatures are poached for the Asian traditional medicine market, rescuers scramble to preserve a vulnerable marine population
Inside the trial for a vaccine to end malaria
Volunteers in Oxford are testing an experimental jab against an ancient killer
Battle rages over access to new ‘miracle’ HIV drug
Trials show Lenacapavir can all but eliminate infection. Yet in the Latin American countries where it was tested almost no one can get it
Arsonists torch more Ebola clinics as misinformation spirals in DRC
At least a dozen facilities have now been attacked since Congo declared its outbreak
New drug for super-gonorrhoea points to better antibiotic development
It is possible to break the cycle that has left much of the world waiting years for new antibiotics
