Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo are racing to contain fresh outbreaks of Ebola that have killed at least four ...

Under the bright lights of Durban’s convention centre, amid applause from scientists and policymakers gathered for the 4th International Conference on Public Health in Africa, Ugandan biochemist Dr ...

In the past 30 days officials have confirmed highly pathogenic avian flu in 31 commercial flocks and 31 backyard flocks ...

KINSHASA, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will launch a nationwide vaccination campaign against measles and rubella late November, covering almost all provinces, but in a ...

More than 50 women have accused Ebola aid workers from the World Health Organization and leading NGOs of sexual exploitation ...

An Ebola outbreak has been reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). At least a dozen cases of the hemorrhagic fever have been reported in the Bolamba health zone, which is located in ...

For the first time ever, doctors have diagnosed a case of the Ebola virus in a U.S. patient, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed Tuesday. The patient was diagnosed on Sunday and ...

Ebola virus may hide in apparently healthy survivors and trigger new disease outbreaks years later, according to a genomic study published in Nature Wednesday, a finding that challenges scientists’ ...

Ebola cases are very rare in the United States. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has for the first time approved a vaccine for the prevention of the deadly Ebola virus disease. The agency ...