Water inflation and surviving on cactus – is this the future of climate change famine?

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T-cells not antibodies may be the key to fighting off the virus, study shows

Other countries have pledged to help poorer nations, but Norway is among the first to do so 'in parallel' with its own programme

It is the fourth time the virus – which has a fatality rate as high as 75 per cent – has emerged in the state of Kerala

'What struck me is that it’s unclear what the UK Government’s goal is. What is the strategy?'

Doctors rule out Covid, influenza and hantavirus as culprits but continue to run more tests

The country's coronavirus commission has heavily criticised both the government and the public health agency

Cambodian authorities test close-contacts for H5N1 after child's death. The possibility of human-to-human transmission has sparked alarm

Experts behind Pfizer vaccine are collaborating on an individualised pancreatic cancer treatment that can boost long-term immune response

With more than 66,000 deaths in March alone, Brazil is in the midst of a health and political crisis. How did the country get to this point?

Anna describes how she was forced to find victims as drunken soldiers conducted a night of murder and mayhem in her small Ukrainian village

Bars and clubs are among the 'most dangerous' places due to human behaviour, enclosed settings and the difficulty in tracing contacts

Experts said they replicated the jab using publicly available data, proving mRNA shots are not 'too complicated' for lower income countries

Brazil is in the grip of a second wave driven by a highly infectious variant and a disjointed approach to restrictions

A variant identified in Japan in arrivals from Brazil shares 'concerning' characteristics with mutations detected in the UK and South Africa

Prof Zhang Yongzhen has suffered setbacks, demotions and has been ostracised by Communist government

Sage moved rapidly to catch-up after a slow and difficult start. Crucially, it was able to change tack when the evidence demanded it

Brazil is in the grip of a second wave driven by a highly infectious variant and a disjointed approach to restrictions

Hospitals and cemeteries are again overwhelmed, resembling the brutal outbreak last April. It comes as Brazil's death toll hits 200,000

Experts worry that Defra is conflicted and say it is ‘short-sighted’ not to be testing British herds

'Mayhem' is predicted in the Indian capital as patients are being turned away from hospitals amid a shortage of beds and healthcare workers

Analysis shows that fragments of H5N1 survive pasteurisation, but experts say supplies remains safe

Two dozen experts have reaffirmed their view that the pandemic has natural origins in a new letter to The Lancet

How women in Ghana are seizing power over their fertility – and future

Waning immunity, shifting behaviour, new variants and even war may all be playing a part in an uptick of UK cases and hospitalisations

An uptick in hospitalisations is linked to two omicron sub-variants– BA.4 and BA.5 – which are now ‘in the ascendancy’

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Human rights activists urged the U.N. Security Council on Monday to refer Myanmar's military rulers to the International Criminal Court and urged neighboring Southeast Asian...

More than 300 Omicron off-shoots are circulating the globe – but reduced surveillance limits efforts to understand them, says WHO

Impoverished, isolated and authoritarian, North Korea and Eritrea are the only two countries refusing to vaccinate their populations

A strategy to suppress spread while vaccines are developed could fall victim to a 'catch 22', without a new way to test efficacy

On Saturday, Andriy Kononenko, aged 51, became a soldier to defend his homeland from Russian invaders. Here, he explains why

A WHO employee put a ‘firm hand’ on the 26-year-old’s bottom and touched her breast, in a case that exposes harassment in the UN

Cambodian authorities test close-contacts for H5N1 after child's death. The possibility of human-to-human transmission has sparked alarm

For 50 years, Malita Kwali has slept on her hard concrete floor every night, fearful that if she rests on a mattress it will be wet through by morning.

Cambodian authorities test close-contacts for H5N1 after child's death. The possibility of human-to-human transmission has sparked alarm

The first case of the coronavirus has been confirmed in London.

As the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region escalates, experts describe the blood bath as the ‘deadliest war in the world’

Sir Jeremy Farrar said the avian H5N1 virus sweeping global bird populations posed the biggest pandemic threat to the world after Covid

Exclusive: The nine million doses may be wasted as countries struggle to ramp up vaccine campaigns

Ukraine reports tens of thousands of new TB cases annually and has one of the highest rates of multi-drug-resistant TB in the world

While new variants and vaccinations have reduced death rates, and we are living with Covid, misconceptions still linger, says global health expert Devi Sridhar

The Telegraph's Anne Gulland looks at what experts have said after several countries suspended rollout of the AstraZeneca jab

Four years ago, Dr Matshidiso Moeti smashed the glass ceiling when she became the first woman to lead the World Health Organization’s Regional Office for Africa.

With more than 66,000 deaths in March alone, Brazil is in the midst of a health and political crisis. How did the country get to this point?

The United Nations has labelled the last 10 years as a “deadly decade” for children, as attacks against young people in war zones have almost tripled.

One of three potential vaccine candidates has been developed by the team behind the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid jab

As Europe’s climate changes, the UKHSA are hunting for new and old threats lurking across Britain, including West Nile virus and dengue