“Measles is only one plane flight, one boat ride away from New Zealand, so are we concerned? Yes, we are very concerned,” ...

Misiafa Lene, a 12-year-old boy from Samoa, succumbed to dengue fever in Auckland. He contracted the disease in Samoa. He was ...

After contracting the infection in Samoa, the boy was flown to Auckland's Starship Children's Hospital where he later died.

Several health outbreaks are being monitored across the Pacific ... saying the disease "is only one plane flight, one boat ride away from New Zealand". Since January, there has been a growing and ...

When people with lived experience contribute to the design and delivery of health care and research, it means services are ...

The measles outbreak in western ... the South Plains Public Health District, on Feb. 23, 2025, in Brownfield, Texas. Julio Cortez/AP, FILE Gaines County, which borders New Mexico, remains the ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., left, arrives at Reinlander Mennonite Church after a second measles death, Sunday, April 6, 2025, in Seminole, Texas. Kansas health ...

Those types of statements are important for the public to hear leaders say from the top down, said Dr. Oxiris Barbot, who was New York City's health commissioner during the 2019 measles outbreak.

Another public pool has had to be drained after a person sick with a highly contagious parasitic stomach bug circulating in ...

Measles cases have continued to surge in Texas since the outbreak first began in late January. State health officials reported 561 confirmed cases across 23 counties on Tuesday, an increase of 20 ...

We live in an interconnected world, so cases of the new strain are extremely likely to be identified in the coming weeks and months in many countries. But this does not make a global outbreak of ...