The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health alert about an outbreak in Uganda of deadly Sudan virus ...

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.

Any microbe, new or known, could cause an infection outbreak at any time. Researchers gear up to preemptively fight this ...

The often-deadly Ebola virus disease (EVD) is confined mostly to Africa, but because of how globally connected the world is today, it is regarded as a possible health threat worldwide. Still ...

HHS implemented a pause on research of deadly infectious diseases at one of the nation's most highly secure research labs, following repeated safety incidents.

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 ...

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

Ebola is a terrifying virus which, if left untreated ... 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 ...