The laboratory, which will study some of the deadliest viruses, has prompted concerns over a repeat of the coronavirus ...

Amid a new Ebola outbreak in Kampala, Uganda, the World Health Organization has kicked off a vaccine trial. This is the first ...

A laboratory holding Ebola and other dangerous pathogens in the eastern DR Congo city of Goma—which has been seized by the ...

The first participants have been vaccinated with an investigational Ebola Sudan vaccine candidate provided by IAVI, a nonprofit scientific ...

In an increasingly interconnected world, global health faces constant threats from new and re-emerging pathogens. Recent devastating outbreaks of diseases ...

Reuters] A nurse has died from Ebola in the Ugandan capital Kampala, the health ministry said Thursday. "An outbreak of Sudan ...

Yet until recently, scientists didn’t fully understand why bats are so good at harboring pathogens that don’t seem to harm ...

At least nine people have died in a fresh outbreak of Marburg virus disease, an eye-bleeding condition in Tanzania, Africa's ...

The virus has already infected ten people since the nation officially announced the outbreak last week. Of these infections ...

The highly contagious Ebola virus has claimed more than 15,000 lives since it was first identified in central Africa in 1976.

The WHO and the CDC coordinated well when faced with viral outbreaks. This is no time to demolish a well-oiled machine.

Oral transmission refers to the spreading of microbes through saliva or shared foods and drinks. Saliva-spread diseases can be due to multiple pathogens. Examples of viruses that can be spread through ...