Public health agencies are under pressure to move faster, detect threats earlier, and make better decisions, even as their funding is cut and their authority reduced. While most public health agencies ...

JMIR Publications has released a critical analysis in its News and Perspectives section regarding the global resurgence of ...

Shpiner is a clinical professor of medicine at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. A study published recently in Annals of Internal Medicine confirmed what many clinicians had begun to suspect: ...

Researchers have come up with a new way to identify more infectious variants of viruses or bacteria that start spreading in humans - including those causing flu, COVID, whooping cough and tuberculosis ...

Morogoro. The Ministry of Health has launched a programme aimed at strengthening the national disease surveillance system by integrating the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) ...

Wastewater-based infectious disease surveillance describes the ongoing collection, analysis, and interpretation of and response to data related to the transmission of pathogens in wastewater for ...

The Department of Disease Control and the National Science and Technology Development Agency will jointly promote R&D translation and government-wide collaboration to modernise public health ...

As Lagos battles persistent threats like cholera, measles, and Lassa fever, public health experts are warning that lapses in disease surveillance could endanger the lives of millions. In response, the ...