The memory of the Covid-19 shock shapes how governments and publics react to any new outbreak with even a hint of international spread

Health officials are monitoring possible exposures in Gauteng after passengers linked to a deadly cruise ship outbreak passed through South Africa, with one patient in critical…

A new COP30 report finds that rising temperatures, extreme weather, evolving pathogens and climate-driven migration are reshaping disease patterns

How extreme weather events are amplifying disease risks across the globe

Climate change is a risk to public health that demands immediate action

Stigmatising the marginalised is driven by vested interests, both in the case of African foreign nationals subject to xenophobia and South Africans facing economic doom

Health professionals have called on leaders at COP26 to prioritise changing food systems to reduce their effect on the climate, as well as to prevent deaths

As the pandemic’s second wave spreads through the country, the number of excess deaths increases too

Any of 850 000 viruses could cause the next global crisis. Experts say we should focus on prevention

It is imperative that we train healthcare workers and participate in continent-wide collaboration

The latest on the spread of covid-19, how it is affecting the world, and what efforts are being made to prevent the spread of the virus

But take the threat seriously and prepare for a community outbreak, says professor Cheryl Cohen

Western media has racialised the coronavirus outbreak, leading to increased Sinophobia in several countries. Such dehumanisation of a race has no place in functioning democracies

In many ways, violence is like cholera, passing from person to person and treating it in similar ways is working to reduce it.

Only six out of ten Angolan children have been vaccinated against yellow fever.

Gene sequencing tools allows scientists to untangle the genetic roots of many diseases and they’re looking at genetic variation in Africa.

Liberia suspects numerous infections and five deaths are from the Ebola virus spreading from neighbouring Guinea, with one suspected case in Canada.

A cheap, highly portable blood test has proven to be as accurate as expensive hospital-based analyses in detecting infectious diseases.

The immune system has been found to target viruses inside cells, suggesting new strategies to fight infections — including colds and gastroenteritis

With rabies and related viruses in Africa as the focus of her research, Dr Wanda Markotter has an interest in the viruses found in African bats.