Africa’s top public health agency says that Uganda’s Ebola caseload increased to 14 in the last week with a new cluster emerging from a 4-year-old child who recently died of the infectious disease.

Study Suggests Ebola is a zoonotic disease, meaning outbreaks typically begin when a person is exposed to infected animals (African fruit bats are thought to be a primary reservoir). But it can ...

Health officials are concerned about a potential outbreak of Lassa fever, a viral illness that can cause Ebola-like symptoms, after a person was confirmed to be infected after travelling from Nigeria.

Measles continues to spread in Texas and other states and has caused the first reported U.S. death from the virus in a decade ...

If the outbreak is caused by a viral hemorrhagic fever like Ebola, which spreads from person to person via contact with infected bodily fluids, controlling it will require many more resources ...

UKHSA is now working to trace and contact individuals who may have been in contact with the infected person during their time in England. There have been very few cases of Lassa fever ever ...

“While decisive action is needed to combat Ebola and other diseases, the quarantine of a geographic location applied to a people without evidence of infection functions not to control but to ...

Ebola, which is spread by contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person or contaminated materials, manifests as a deadly hemorrhagic fever. Symptoms include fever, vomiting, diarrhea ...

Ebola, which is spread by contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person or contaminated materials, manifests as a deadly haemorrhagic fever. Symptoms include fever, vomiting, diarrhea ...