EXPLAINER
Why is India’s Nipah virus outbreak spooking the world?
The virus spreads from animals to humans, via person-to-person contact or through consuming contaminated food.
![A girl suffering from mpox waits for treatment at a clinic in Munigi, eastern Congo on Aug. 19, 2024. [Moses Sawasawa/AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/image-1769207244.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Advertisement
Content Feed
What if … the United Nations was disbanded next Friday?
Experts tell Al Jazeera what would happen if the world decided to get rid of its core institution next week.
From: NewsFeed
Sick children from Gaza arrive in Italy for medical treatment
Italy is welcoming 19 children who were evacuated from Gaza by the World Health Organization.
Published On 6 Nov 2025
From: The Stream
Is the world ready for another pandemic?
With countries struggling to bring the chikungunya virus under control, is the world prepared for another pandemic?
Published On 31 Oct 2025
EXPLAINER
Are vaccine mandates needed to achieve high vaccination rates?
There are calls to remove mandates in the US – but the country faces unique barriers compared with other countries.
EXPLAINER
Why has Pakistan’s HPV vaccine campaign faced a backlash?
Pakistan rolled out the vaccine for the HPV virus last month. The virus causes cervical cancer.
WHO warns $1.7bn funding shortfall threatens polio eradication efforts
The significant funding reductions mean certain activities will simply not happen: WHO’s polio eradication director.
![A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child at a hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024 [File: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/AP24245471961214-1734520071.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Bangladesh rolls out typhoid immunisation drive for 50 million children
The campaign aims to protect the children from the drug-resistant disease spreading across South Asia.
![Children attending a floating school in Bhangura area of Pabna, Bangladesh [Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-10-07T224137Z_87066588_RC2SYGA6ZQ7Z_RTRMADP_3_BANGLADESH-CLIMATE-EDUCATION-1760270834.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Orphaned by Israel, two child amputees find each other in Lebanon
Pulled from the rubble in Gaza and southern Lebanon, two boys are rebuilding their lives together.
WHO debunks Trump claim on autism link to paracetamol during pregnancy
US President Donald Trump has linked childhood vaccine use and paracetamol use by pregnant women to autism.
WHO warns hospitals ‘on the brink’ as Israel pushes Gaza City assault
Israel continues deadly bid to ethnically cleanse enclave’s largest city amid ‘cataclysmic’ humanitarian conditions.
![Displaced Palestinians move with their belongings southwards on a road in the Nuseirat refugee camp area in the central Gaza Strip following renewed Israeli evacuation orders for Gaza City on September 18, 2025. [Eyad Baba/ AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/000_74WU8Y4-1758191598.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
