Some 40 people linked to a nurse who died with the haemorrhagic fever last week will be the first to receive the new jab ...

The biggest filovirus outbreak, caused by Ebola virus, occurred in three West African countries from 2014 to 2016. It killed more than 11,000 people and infected more than 28,000.

Can philanthropy fill the gap left by the closure of USAID? Unlikely, say the experts — but it can do something.

Scientists have developed a tool to narrow down potential host species of filoviruses like Ebola and better prioritize wildlife surveillance. Bats are widely recognized as the primary hosts of ...

President Trump has inherited an evolving chemical and biological threat landscape, but not one he hasn’t encountered before.

An emergency vaccine trial has been launched to combat a new outbreak of the deadly Sudan strain of Ebola virus. The World ...

The International Coordinating Group on Vaccine Provision’s emergency Ebola vaccine stockpile offers a model. The United States contributed more than $750 million to the development of EVD ...

The biggest filovirus outbreak, caused by Ebola virus, occurred in three West African countries from 2014 to 2016. It killed more than 11,000 people and infected more than 28,000. More recently, a ...

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.” ...

Guinea celebrates today the elimination of sleeping sickness (also known as human African trypanosomiasis or HAT) as a public health problem.

(Ondrej Prosicky, Getty) Bats are widely recognized as the primary hosts of filoviruses, such as Ebola, yet the specific host species of ebolaviruses are not definitively known. In a study led by the ...