Ebola virus disease is a rare but often deadly condition that causes fever, body aches, diarrhea, and sometimes bleeding inside and outside the body. It's caused by viruses commonly called Ebola ...

What Is Marburg Virus Disease? This virus, formally known as Marburg hemorrhagic fever (MHF), is similar to the Ebola virus. It causes you to quickly develop severe illness and fever, which could ...

Lassa fever has similar symptoms to the Ebola virus, causing hemorrhagic fever ... so the risk of the disease spreading to fellow passengers is "extremely low," the CDC said.

Uganda declared the outbreak over on 26 April. In total there had been fourteen reported cases, of whom four died ...

The Ebola virus devastated west Africa in 2014 ... Africa exposed a critical gap in global preparedness for infectious diseases: the absence of effective vaccines. There were no drugs or vaccines ...

With the rise in frequency of disease outbreaks in East Africa, regional health bodies are looking to Uganda’s success in ...

Frieden, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), knew it was no simple matter to properly carry away a body loaded with Ebola virus. It takes four people wearing ...

MVD, which is frequently fatal and is related to the much better-known Ebola virus, is sometimes known as "bleeding eye disease" because it damages people's blood vessels, causing them to bleed ...

The technology exists to identify new threats from infected animals, laboratory accidents or rogue states — let’s use it ...

A diagnostic test developed by Singaporean scientists to detect neutralising antibodies for multiple viruses is now in use in ...