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 vaccine candidate is being evaluated in a ring vaccination trial as part of a comprehensive public health response ...

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 ...

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 Marburg virus, a close relative of Ebola, is a deadly disease that causes haemorrhaging and has a high mortality rate. This virus has recently resurfaced in Tanzania, infecting nine people and ...

Marburg belongs to the same family of illnesses as Ebola and can cause death in up to 88% of cases. President Samia Suluhu Hassan said on Monday that at least one person in the northwest of the ...

Tanzania’s president has confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus disease (MVD), a highly infectious virus like Ebola that can be fatal in up to 88 per cent of cases without treatment.