Symptoms can appear suddenly and include a fever, chills, severe headache, cough, muscle or joint pain. A new rule has been ...

Tanzania declares the end of the Marburg virus outbreak, but Africa continues to battle rising health crises, including ...

In her new book 'A History of the World in Six Plagues,' Edna Bonhomme describes a 2014 epidemic that decimated a neighborhood — possibly foreshadowing what's to come.

U.S.-funded organizations helped keep dangerous pathogens in check around the world. Now many safeguards are gone, and ...

Ebola in Uganda is the latest in a trend of outbreaks of viral hemorrhagic fevers in the east African region. Tanzania ...

Dr. Herbert Luswata, president of the Uganda Medical Association, said that the Ebola response had been badly hampered by the ...

KAMPALA, Uganda -- A 4-year-old child became the second person to die this year of Ebola in Uganda, the World Health ...

Ebola in Uganda raising concerns of spreading outbreak - There are no approved vaccines for the Sudan strain of Ebola that's ...

Ebola, which is spread by contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person or contaminated materials, manifests as a deadly hemorrhagic fever. Symptoms include fever, vomiting, diarrhea ...

CDC officials "aren't allowed to go to meetings with the World Health Organization, something they would have done in every single outbreak of Ebola — or other viral hemorrhagic fever disease ...