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The European Commission has launched a new strategy to build its health crisis arsenal and shield citizens from the next ...

Marburg virus is one of the world’s deadliest pathogens. Closely related to Ebola, it causes hemorrhagic fever with mortality ...

Bullish on their success, the global public health enterprise turned to another threat: polio. Eliminating polio would ...

In this interview, Professor James J. Collins, founder of the field of Synthetic Biology, discusses his journey to founding ...

As a practising Catholic, I was raised to revere the Mass as the highest form of worship -- a sacred moment in which heaven touches earth and the faithful encounter the divine. Over the years, my ...

This article appeared in the Spring/Summer 2025 issue of Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health magazine.The WHO's declaration of ...

As Nigeria battles recurrent outbreaks of Lassa fever and other communicable diseases, and the world continues to make sense ...

Ebola virus is an infectious agent and one of the viruses that can cause haemorraghic fever, a severe infectious disease characterized by high fever and bleeding, in humans and some monkeys.

The filoviruses Ebola and Marburg use several different and effective mechanisms to both evade and battle the immune system. This Review explores recent findings in the filovirus–host-defence ...

A TEENAGE girl has died from a brain-swelling bat virus which experts fear could be the ‘next pandemic’. The 18-year-old ...

By the time the outbreak was reported, the bacteria was already rampant. E.coli was lurking inside the refugee camp’s food ...