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COVID, the flu and other viral infections can re-awaken dormant breast cancer cells, new study in mice shows

This recent study highlights just how great of an affect viral infections can have on our health in both the short-term and long-term.

“Clinics on wheels” bring healthcare to underserved doorsteps in Pakistan

More underprivileged kids in the province are getting vaccinated, and more ill people cared for, since Punjab launched the mobile healthcare programme.

Three years on from a deadly measles outbreak, Liberian parents are choosing vaccination

Liberia is no stranger to healthcare challenges, but a mass immunisation campaign targeting 800,000 children hopes to ensure that measles outbreaks are a thing of the past.

In Lesotho, measles vaccination saves lives, saves time and saves money

The cost of an illness that could have been prevented is always too high.

Preventing cervical cancer in Mozambique, Sao Tome and Principe, and Guinea-Bissau

Virtual exchange is a low-cost learning opportunity.

Vaccine hesitancy: How social and technological issues converged to spawn mistrust

A complex blend of personal, social and environmental factors fuels vaccine skepticism.

Whooping cough: a history

The scientists who fought pertussis, and what they lost before they won.

The contagion scale: which diseases spread fastest?

How transmission rates shape our response to infectious disease threats.