Ebola is rare, deadly and has multiple variants. There is a vaccine for the Zaire type. Now, trials for another strain are ...

Infectious disease emergencies can threaten breastfeeding and the lives of mothers and babies. Depending on the disease, ...

There are no approved vaccines or treatments for Sudan virus disease, which has a 40–70% fatality rate. To curb the ongoing outbreak, Uganda has deployed—under a clinical trial setting—a vaccine ...

The World Health Organization's emergencies director on Friday praised the "fastest roll-out" of an Ebola vaccine trial in ...

SEVEN people have tested positive and two have died from a highly contagious strain of Ebola in Uganda, as scientists race to ...

Dr Aceng emphasised the relevance of safe, dignified burials for Ebola victims due to the high risk of infection ...

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

The world’s richest man is boasting about destroying the U.S. Agency for International Development, which saves the lives of the world’s poorest children, saying he shoved it “into the wood chipper.” ...

Elizabeth Shackelford is senior policy director at Dartmouth College’s Dickey Center for International Understanding and a ...

A second type of bird flu H5N1 has been detected in US cattle Some experts believe the risk for humans is low Infections have also been detected outside the US, in the United Kingdom European authorit ...

US president Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization is threatening funding for ...

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