The removal of invasive rodents from Lord Howe Island has triggered a rebound of invertebrate life, with researchers from the University of Sydney and collaborators documenting sharp increases in the ...

While polio may seem like a disease of the past, its eradication is still unfinished business—and one of the most ambitious global health undertakings in history. In honor of World Polio Day on ...

Federal Health Minister Mustafa Kamal held a series of high-level meetings on the sidelines of the World Health Assembly in Geneva with the health ministers of Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria and Indonesia ...

The latest goal for the end of polio transmission will almost certainly not be met, according to a frank and concerning report about the future of the decades-long polio eradication effort that was ...

February 5, 2014 — The enormous, warty and brown cane toad was introduced to Australia intentionally in 1935 as a form of natural pest control — it was supposed to eat native beetles that threatened ...

MinnPost’s journalists are out in the community to report on the things that are happening in Minnesota. Your support right now will help fund their work AND keep our news paywall-free. In October ...

Smallpox is an acute, febrile, contagious disease caused by the variola virus, which is a member of the family Poxviridae. Until the 1970s, smallpox had been a pandemic disease for more than 3000 ...