Malaria, though preventable, remains one of the world’s deadliest diseases. Nearly half a million African children under five die from malaria every year. In 2021, over 100 million people contracted malaria, and hundreds of thousands succumbed.
How To Know If You’ve Caught The Summer Flu
The summer flu is a viral respiratory infection, similar to the flu. While the flu virus is most active from fall to winter, it can spread year-round. Summer flu-like symptoms may stem from other illnesses.
Cholera Risk Soars As Frightening New Adaptations Resist Antibiotics
Cholera is a serious infectious disease affecting many countries worldwide. It causes severe diarrhea and incurs high death rates. Children and pregnant women are at severe risk of fatality from the disease.
What You Need To Know About Mpox In 2025
Researchers are noticing alarming trends with mpox, previously known as Monkeypox, in 2024. A more acute variant of the virus is spreading to previously unaffected regions. As mpox cases rise, vaccination and sex education are critical to slow spread and save lives.
Surprising New Research Hints at Overlooked Black Death Factors
The Black Death, or plague, is one of the most infamous diseases in human history. It caused huge loss of life, especially during its second pandemic in the 14th century. Cases of plague still crop up worldwide, though nowhere near the extent they used to.
Recent scientific inquiry has unveiled specific details about the Black Death’s possible origins. Additionally, an organism has been identified as a possible overlooked plague vector. These insights could alter how scientists understand the Black Death’s past and present.
Not Enough People Get This “Medical Miracle” Vaccine
Only one vaccine prevents cancer: the HPV vaccine. It reduces rates of multiple forms of carcinoma.
Contrary to belief, the HPV vaccine benefits all genders. Despite its effectiveness, vaccination rates are low. In the U.S., only a small majority of teens complete the series; adults are even less likely.
Improved education and distribution could save hundreds of thousands of lives.
Medical Experts Race for Solutions to Enormous Dengue Surge
Dengue fever cases are rising globally, worrying experts. The virus is spreading to areas where it wasn’t found before, including the United States.
Treatment options for dengue fever are very limited. As global case numbers break records, researchers are rushing to find real solutions. New developments promise innovative approaches to dengue prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.
New Research Undermines Claim That Plague Rewrote Human DNA
The Black Death is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. It may have killed up to half of Europe’s population.
Two years ago, researchers suggested that the plague might have left marks in human DNA. But recent studies disagree with these findings. Other studies highlight possible flaws in the methods used. More research is needed to finally resolve the debate about the plague’s impact on human DNA.
Mpox is Surging: The World Is in Desperate Need of Medicines
West African nations have been inoculating against smallpox for centuries. African, Arab, and Asian communities used this practice for safe trade.
Africans brought smallpox prevention to the Americas before the 18th century. Later, Edward Jenner used these ancient techniques to invent the first vaccine.
This tool became crucial in the 20th-century effort to eradicate smallpox. The virus claimed hundreds of millions of lives before global cooperation stopped it.
Now, West Africa faces a new, related viral disease: mpox. Formerly called monkeypox, mpox has infected over 30,000 Africans in 2024 alone.
Africa helped create vaccines. It now needs them from the rest of the world to fight the mpox crisis.
Eradicating TB: New Hope To End The World’s Deadliest Disease
Best-selling author John Green, known for >The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All the Way Down, has emerged as an advocate for ending tuberculosis. Uploaded last year, his YouTube video, Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Johnson & Johnson, has reached 1.4 million views.
The video highlighted how pharmaceutical companies set high prices for TB treatments. Costs remain out of reach to the most vulnerable populations to TB.
Green’s voice adds to the global call for TB action. The disease became the world’s deadliest in 2023, surpassing COVID-19. Though curable, TB kills millions yearly, especially in poorer regions. Global cooperation is improving, but efforts must redouble to reduce TB’s urgent threat.
