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
Photo by Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Dominique A. Pineiro; CC-BY 2.0 On May 20, 2025, the Pandemic Agreement was adopted by Member States at
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: Focal Foto, CC BY-NC 2.0 Generic Deed Two years ago, the Supreme Court shocked the nation by overturning Roe v. Wade, ending the constitutional
Image: NIAID, CC BY 2.0 Generic Deed On August 14, 2024, the World Health Organization declared the mpox outbreak in Africa to be a public
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