Infectious disease emergencies can threaten breastfeeding and the lives of mothers and babies. Depending on the disease, ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has asked doctors and health experts to start revewing Americans for the ...

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

U.S. health officials advise Americans traveling to Uganda to take enhanced precautions due to an Ebola outbreak ...

Ebola is rare, deadly and has multiple variations. There is a vaccine for the Zaire type, now trials for another are underway ...

The outbreak marks Uganda's eighth from an Ebola virus. The first confirmed case in the outbreak was a nurse at a hospital in the nation's capital, Kampala, who contracted Ebola on Jan. 20 or Jan. 21 ...

Ugandan authorities have begun a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola that has killed one person in ...

While anyone can contract the bacteria, close contact with someone with the infection is the most common risk factor for the disease. Impetigo spreads more easily when people are in close quarters.

A Bolivian man has died after contracting Chapare virus, an Ebola ... infected with Chapare Hemorrhagic Fever. The virus was first discovered in rural Bolivia in 2003. Since then, at least fifteen ...

Marburg belongs to the same family of illnesses as Ebola and can cause ... said on Monday that at least one person in the northwest of the country had been infected. The confirmation comes after ...