As fears rise over an Ebola outbreak in a remote region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), experts have offered ...

Boum said more than 1,000 contacts have been identified, with a case-to-contact ratio of 1:20, which he said is a sign of ...

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) called on Monday for countries to overcome the remaining obstacles to ...

The World Health Organisation has issued a warning as a deadly illness sweeps through a region, with eight deaths reported ...

Scientists embed freeze-dried biosensors into textiles, turning everyday fabrics into smart diagnostics for detecting pathogens.

Step into one of Australia's few biosafety level 4 facilities, where scientists handle highly transmissible and potentially ...

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Two Chicago hospitals will serve as "Elite Special Pathogen Treatment Centers" with state funding to upgrade their ability to care for patients with high-consequence pathogens such as Ebola virus, ...

On a November morning in 2018, a man checked into a crowded emergency department (ED) in California reporting fever and body aches. The clerk who checked him in quickly deduced that he had arrived 2 ...

When I learned that an outbreak of Ebola was declared in Uganda last fall, I had a flashback to 2014 when I was working at Merck and an outbreak of Ebola disease caused by a different species of the ...

Mountain gorillas in Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park. (Skyler Bishop for Gorilla Doctors) If infected with the Ebola virus, less than 20% of endangered mountain gorillas living in Africa’s Virunga ...