Maeve Cullinan is a reporter for The Telegraph’s Global Health Security desk, covering topics including infectious disease, emerging threats, humanitarian crises, conflict, and reproductive health.

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Guinea worm is on course to become the second human disease eradicated after smallpox, with only 10 human cases reported worldwide in 2025. Just 10 human cases of Guinea worm were reported worldwide ...

Russia operated a top-secret biological weapons facility on a remote island in the Aral Sea. During a classified test, a deadly virus escaped beyond the exclusion zone. The incident was quietly ...

More than four decades after smallpox was eradicated, scientists are reassessing the legacy of that public health triumph.

Just 10 human cases of Guinea worm were reported worldwide in 2025, the lowest number ever recorded, and a major step towards eradication. The Carter Center, a United States non-profit leading the ...

The internet has been abuzz with "Nipah virus" after two cases were recently identified in health care workers in India. Could this be our next COVID-19? The World Health Organization named it a ...

International airports across South and Southeast Asia have tightened health screening measures, with Thailand this week setting up designated parking bays for planes arriving from areas where the ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that a patient in Bangladesh died after contracting the Nipah virus, adding that it believes the risk of the disease spreading internationally still ...

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