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Case counts for Oropouche virus are still low but rising dramatically. What's going on? And then there's a study that raises the possibility that insect bites aren't the only way the virus can spread.

Earlier this year, a surprising story emerged about RFK Jr. -- the newly named nominee for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services -- and a parasitic brain worm.

The anti-malarial drug Artemisinin is highly effective. It's critical for kids, who are especially vulnerable. A new study comes to an alarming conclusion.

Mahamat Djouma is one of the millions displaced by the civil war in Sudan. He is part of an especially vulnerable group -- unaccompanied minors. Here is his story.

New research shows the malaria parasite could be developing resistance to the current front-line treatment for the disease -- a drug that has saved millions of lives.

The government in Lahore has closed schools and public spaces and shut down factories. Environmental lawyer Ahmad Rafay Alam shares his perspective: "frustrated" but still fighting.

Global pandemic treaty negotiators are hashing out cooperation plans this week and considering rushing the process out of fear that the Trump administration would pull the U.S. out of negotiations.

Sudan's civil war has displaced 10 million citizens. Here are profiles of two young people from the most vulnerable groups: an unaccompanied minor caring for twin brothers, a woman who was raped.

DIslodged by COVID early in the pandemic, tuberculosis is once again the infectious disease that takes the most lives each year. And the number of cases set a new record. What's going on?

Health workers say they won't be able to vaccinate all the children they had planned to reach because of ongoing fighting.