Here’s a look at Ebola, a virus with a high fatality rate that was first identified in Africa in 1976. Facts Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a disease caused by one of five different Ebola viruses. Four of ...

Uganda health authorities say they discharged the last eight patients who recovered from Ebola. There were no other positive ...

Stanford scientists discovered that a harmless skin bacterium triggers a powerful immune response. By tweaking a bacterial ...

Manhattan health scare after two patients at an urgent care centre sparked Ebola fears, later ruled out as likely norovirus.

The scare happened around 11:15 a.m. on Sunday at a CityMD on East 125th Street between Lexington Avenue and Third Avenue.

Two patients at a Manhattan urgent-care facility were rushed to the hospital by emergency workers in hazmat suits during a ...

The virus is similar to Ebola and symptoms include 'unexplained bleeding', vomiting and diarrhoea - an outbreak has been ...

There are no approved vaccines or treatments for Sudan virus disease, which has a 40–70% fatality rate. To curb the ongoing outbreak, Uganda has deployed—under a clinical trial setting—a vaccine ...

SEVEN people have tested positive and two have died from a highly contagious strain of Ebola in Uganda, as scientists race to ...

The Ministry of Health has closed Saidina Abubaker Islamic Hospital and evacuated all health workers to an isolation facility ...

In a global first, Uganda's Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners today launched a first ever vaccine trial for Ebola from the Sudan species of the virus, and at ...