Atravel advisory has been issued mandating that travellers have their body temperature checked at all points of entry ...

New research this month shows that the experimental antiviral obeldesivir prevented up to 100% of deaths in monkeys infected ...

As well as protecting the monkeys from death, the treatment also evoked an immune response. Senior author Dr Thomas Geisbert ...

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 ...

"That's a huge advantage," Geisbert said. Pharmaceutical maker Gilead is currently advancing Obeldesivir to Phase 2 clinical ...

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

Flight paths are tracked, allowing the CDC to see where the virus came from — information that can be ... The CDC is monitoring various outbreaks around the world — including Marburg in Tanzania, ...

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

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

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

Fighting by Islamic State and other terrorist groups over minerals and power has led to widespread killings and rape in the ...

This is the latest viral epidemic to hit the East African region in the past year, following outbreaks of Marburg virus and mpox diseases among others. The World Health Organisation (WHO ...