KAMPALA, Uganda — Ebola cases in Uganda have risen to nine, while 265 other people were being monitored under quarantine, ...

In an unprecedented move, Uganda's rapid launch of an Ebola vaccine trial is not only a significant scientific milestone, but also a bold statement that the world can no longer afford to wait for ...

Workers at Firestone's rubber farm in Liberia say that extracting natural rubber comes with a high human cost.

Ms Badolé suffers from loiasis, a chronic filarial disease caused by the Loa loa parasite, also known as the African eye worm, which can cause a range of uncomfortable symptoms including intense ...

A yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City, Kansas area has taken local experts aback, even if it does not appear to be the largest outbreak of the disease in U.S. history as a state ...

The Red Cross voiced alarm Tuesday over the risk that fighting in the besieged DR Congo city of Goma could cause samples of Ebola and other pathogens held in a laboratory to escape.

This number will represent an estimated total score for the game. The book will also list odds for the two choices — over or under — for bettors to choose from. Let’s take a look at how the wager ...

If a case of Ebola disease were confirmed in Canada, PHAC would notify the Pan-American Health Organization and the World Health Organization. This is part of our commitment under the International ...

They have climbed 83 per cent this year. Tekmira has developed its treatment, the TKM-Ebola, under a $140m contract with the US Department of Defense. The US Food and Drug Administration in September ...

The Marburg virus is a highly virulent pathogen that causes Marburg virus disease (MVD), a severe hemorrhagic fever likened to Ebola. The virus is primarily transmitted to humans from fruit bats ...