The wife of the Ondo State Governor, Mrs. Oluwaseun Aiyedatiwa, has described measles-rubella as a preventable tragedy that Nigerians must collectively work to eliminate.

Duale noted that drug-resistant typhoid strains are on the rise, making the disease more difficult and costly to treat.

Rubella vaccination campaign is being led by the Ministry of Health in partnership with the World Health Organisation(WHO) and UNICEF. It targets children aged 9 months to 5 years across high-risk ...

Emergency vaccination campaigns have slashed deaths from major infectious disease outbreaks by nearly 60 per cent since 2000, ...

Confirmed cases of measles in Canada are nearly three times higher than in the US, despite Canada's far smaller population.

Nineteen measles vaccination campaigns, aimed at inoculating more than 70 million children, have been postponed during the pandemic so far, the agencies said. Overall, ...

South Africa has been grappling with measles outbreaks since 2022, despite previous vaccination campaigns. Gauteng’s latest figures show 181 cases this year alone, with numbers continuing to climb.

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Alberta has now confirmed more measles cases than the entire United States has reported this year. The province has been ...

Thanks to widespread uptake of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine, cases of this highly contagious virus no longer originated here. But in 2025, that victory is hanging by a thread.

The pandemic dealt a heavy blow to vaccination rates, with an estimated 15 million children missing routine shots between 2020 and 2023, said an author of the study published in The Lancet. The world ...