Image by VCU Capital News Service; CC BY-NC 2.0 Massachusetts health officials and clinicians are responding to the rise in vaccine hesitancy, especially during a

By: Jacqueline Powers Image: Illustrator: Alissa Eckert On November 10, 2025, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) announced that Canada has lost its measles elimination

By: Jacqueline Powers Image by Birdies100; CC BY-SA 2.0 On September 3, 2025, California, Oregon, and Washington announced the West Coast Health Alliance, a partnership

Image: NIH Image Gallery; CC BY-NC 2.0 At the end of October 2024, an outbreak of an unknown pathogen emerged in the Panzi health zone

Image: uu yersinia pestis; CC BY 2.0 Deed In the 14th century, the plague, also known as the “Black Death,” killed over 25 million people

Image by: Ryszard, CC BY-NC 2.0 DEED With cases of babesiosis increasing in the United States over the past decade, this lesser-known tick-borne disease has

Image by: Image by: Shawn Carpenter; CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED The 2024 Olympics have begun, and more than 10 million people are expected to be

Image courtesy of NIAID and CDC; CC-BY 2.0 DEED The recent rise in highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5 cases among humans, poultry, and dairy

Image by: NIAID; CC BY 2.0 DEED Japan has been facing an increase in cases of streptococcal toxic shock syndrome in recent months.1 Streptococcal toxic

Image by: Oli; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED Avian influenza, also known as bird flu, is a highly contagious and deadly disease that primarily infects birds.

Image courtesy of NIAID; CC-BY 2.0 DEED Mpox, previously known as monkeypox, was discovered in 1958 and is caused by the monkeypox virus. Mpox spreads

Image courtesy of NIAID; CC-BY 2.0 DEED A public health emergency for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak was announced on January 30, 2020 by

Image courtesy of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health The recorded number of syphilis cases in the United States is

Image courtesy of Focal Foto; CC-BY-NC 2.0 DEED. On January 24, 2024, Ohio legislatures banned gender-affirming care for minors, overriding Republican Governor Mike De Wine’s

By: Kelsey Toups Image courtesy of neiljs; CC-BY 2.0 DEED. As of December 5th, 17 people in the Kyotera district of Uganda have died of

By: Kelsey Toups Image courtesy of Dr. Yale Rosen Atlas of Pulmonary Pathology; CC-BY-SA 2.0 White lung syndrome isn’t a recognized medical condition; rather, it’s

By: Juliana Sopko Image courtesy of Norden, a Smith-Kline Company; CC-BY-SA 4.0. Vaccine hesitancy is an issue that has lingered in the fringes of US

By: Jacquelin Sauer Image courtesy of Claudio Napoli; CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0. Bangladesh is currently suffering from it’s deadliest outbreak of dengue fever ever recorded.1 Between January

By: Juliana Sopko Image courtesy of Juan Carlos Fonseca Mata; CC-BY-SA. Malaria is a class of parasites (P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. malariae, P. ovale,

By: Jacquelin Sauer Image courtesy of Michael Levine-Clark; CC-BY-NC-ND. Vibrio vulnificus (V. vulnificus), a rare flesh-eating bacteria that belongs to the same family as the