In her new book 'A History of the World in Six Plagues,' Edna Bonhomme describes a 2014 epidemic that decimated a neighborhood — possibly foreshadowing what's to come.

Brazil has reported its first clade 1b mpox case, per a notice from the national Health Ministry.

U.S.-funded organizations helped keep dangerous pathogens in check around the world. Now many safeguards are gone, and ...

Ebola-like virus found in person who travelled to the UK - Lassa fever does not spread easily between people and the overall ...

Dr. Herbert Luswata, president of the Uganda Medical Association, said that the Ebola response had been badly hampered by the ...

Clinicians at the biocontainment treatment centre at Surrey Memorial Hospital are all trained and ready to use two new ...

KAMPALA, Uganda -- A 4-year-old child became the second person to die this year of Ebola in Uganda, the World Health ...

A young child has died of the Ebola virus in Uganda, the second victim of an outbreak that was announced in late January, the health ministry has announced. The ministry said at least ten cases of the ...

So we restored the Ebola prevention immediately ... KONYNDYK: So diseases don't need passports in order to travel. That's the bottom line. One of the things we invested in hugely in 2014 was traveler ...

First, they fired the people who look after the nuclear bombs, then had to hurriedly find where they went and hire them back.