WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) has donated essential medical equipment worth $30,000 (78m/-) to help combat the Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) outbreak in Kagera Region. In a statement, WHO’s ...

Symptoms can appear suddenly and include a fever, chills, severe headache, cough, muscle or joint pain. A new rule has been ...

Monkeys infected with Ebola can be cured with a pill, according to a new study out Friday that could pave the way for more ...

A CDC program tests wastewater from airplanes, looking for pathogens that may have hitched a ride with passengers on long-haul international flights.

Conservatives and liberals alike embraced border closures. U.S. President Donald Trump bragged in his first term that partially closing the U.S. border to China in February 2020 had saved “potentially ...

Tanzania today declared the end of Marburg virus disease outbreak after recording no new cases over 42 days since the death of the last confirmed case on 28 January 2025.The outbreak, in which two ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) welcomed a declaration by Tanzania on the end of the deadly Marburg virus outbreak, ...

So to your point about H5N1, with the mortality being so high, it's possible that the traditional presentation was the ...

In a study published in the journal, Cell, Jing Chen, PhD, and colleagues at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Wuhan, China, ...

Influenza virus is an infectious agent belonging to the virus family Orthomyxoviridae that causes a respiratory tract infection (influenza or 'flu') in vertebrates. There are three main species ...

The health clinic where Alice Okwirry collects her HIV medication in Kenya's capital Nairobi has been rationing supplies of ...

It has been five years since the world was blown into the tumult of a lethal pandemic. Back then, deserted streets and ...