Yassin Fatty, a traditional practitioner of female genital cutting in the West African nation of Gambia, became the first to be convicted there

Afghanistan is one of two countries in which the spread of the potentially fatal, paralyzing disease has never been stopped

Illnesses overlapped, CDC discloses, a day after saying evidence pointed to ‘one-off case’

Zimbabwe's government said Thursday it is considering a proposal to cull its elephant population to address food shortages

Cases have risen 80% in the last five years, and the United States now has the highest syphilis rates since 1950