Gabrielle Emanuel

After small pox was eradicated and vaccinations against the disease came to an end, people in parts of Africa started getting sick with something rarely seen before - mpox.

New England Public Media | By Adam Frenier Massachusetts officials have turned to more motels and hotels like this one to add shelter capacity during an increase in family homelessness.

An unidentified illness has been reported in Kwango Province, in the southwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

An image of the human herpes virus, HSV, taken with transmission electron microscope. Two types can cause genital herpes: HSV-1 and HSV-2.

Genital herpes infections are very common. There are 42 million new infections each year — that averages out to one new person infected each second.

As the new cases and related deaths fall in sub-Saharan Africa, the virus is rearing its head elsewhere. What's the cause? And the solution?

HIV/AIDS cases and deaths have gone up dramatically in the Philippines in the last decade, even though there are drugs to both prevent transmission and to treat the disease.

In 2024, the World Health Organization certified the elimination of a disease in nine countries. We focus on how Pakistan got rid of trachoma, which can cause blindness.

In the year 2024, the World Health Organization certified the elimination of a disease in nine countries.

What does it take to wipe out a human disease? That's only happened once in the history of the world: smallpox, which had killed hundreds of millions, was officially eradicated in 1980.