First identified in 1976 and thought to have crossed over from bats, Ebola is a deadly viral disease spread through direct ...

Five years after COVID-19 reached pandemic status, public health experts reflect on what we learned—and how those lessons can ...

Tracing contacts is key to stemming the spread of Ebola, and there are no approved vaccines for the Sudan strain of Ebola that’s infecting people in ... acquired the virus through contact ...

Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility of a ...

Trial could ‘usher in a new era’ of affordable antibody therapies to protect against dangerous infectious diseases like Mers, ...

Health officials in Britain have published a list of the disease-causing viruses they believe pose the greatest risk to humans for the first time.

Bird flu and coronaviruses are diseases in the 'deadly' virus families that health officials warn have pandemic potential ...

The list of 24 pathogen families is the first to consider global health threats, as well as threats specific to the UK population ...

Remnants of a virus that infected our primate ancestors 30-50 million years ago may be fueling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in people today, according to CU Boulder research. Previous studies ...

Five years ago the country's first national lockdown began. Now, as Ebola, Mpox and bird flu are deemed 'high risk', experts ...

A decade after the worst of the virus’ 40 outbreaks killed 11,300 people, individuals who still bear its physical and mental ...