The country’s elimination of human African trypanosomiasis brings the total to 55 countries that have eliminated at least one ...

A while back, Reddit user No_Camera29 asked, "What's a creepy fact you wish you never learned?" and people had some super disturbing responses that we wrote about here. Now we're back for more creepy ...

"One creepy fact I wish I never learned is that there's a rare disorder called Cotard's Syndrome, aka Walking Corpse Syndrome ...

Cholera Tops Africa’s Disease Emergency Events as Climate Change Fuels Contagion Health crises amplified as epidemics converge with conflicts WHO calls for $1.5 billion in 2025 health emergency ...

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An untreatable Ebola-like virus is on the rise in Tanzania, global health chiefs have warned. Marburg, one of the deadliest pathogens ever discovered, has already infected nine people, killing ...

Eight people have died in Tanzania’s Kagera region following a suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus disease, according to the World Health Organization. The virus, related to Ebola and ...

Analyses reveal that the repeated DNA sequence driving the disease expands slowly over decades in certain brain cells and then rapidly lengthens and kills the cell. Findings offer new way to ...

For the first time in public yesterday, the Princess of Wales reflected on her 'relief' that she's now in remission from cancer - and discussed navigating her 'new normal' as her recovery continues.

There is currently no cure for prion disease, and the new approach could be an important step towards treatments that prevent the disease or slow its progression in patients who have already ...

Over the course of 40 months, the community health worker in Myanmar’s southeastern Mon State has had the mosquito-borne disease nearly two dozen times. “Each time, it feels worse than the last,” the ...

The late Prof Alpers, who dedicated his life to understanding and combating infectious disease in PNG, the award will fund an outstanding Papua New Guinean ... work on kuru played a pivotal role in ...