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

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 ...

USAID had more than 50 staffers dedicated to outbreak response, but recent cuts left just six people to handle Ebola, Marburg virus, mpox and bird flu preparedness. “I have no idea how six people are ...

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 ...

Initial laboratory analysis has produced negative results for Ebola virus disease and Marburg virus disease. Around half of the samples tested positive for malaria, which is common in the region, WHO ...

Dr. Khaled al-Saedni works at a hospital in Gaza and tells how he cares for patients after losing a leg.

Tests have, so far, all proven negative for Ebola or other common haemorrhagic fever diseases like Marburg dubbed 'the eye-bleeding virus'. Dr Michael Head, a senior research fellow in global ...

A Chinese team of virologists has found that this virus carries the risk of animal-to-human transmission. According to the South China Morning Post (SCMP), the new virus called HKU5-CoV-2 was ...

Extensive coronavirus research has led to the discovery of a new bat virus called HKU5-CoV-2. According to a new study published in the medical journal Cell, the new virus can enter human cells using ...

Can the new bat virus, HKU5-CoV-2, lead to another pandemic? According to Chinese researchers, the new coronavirus potentially transmits from animals to humans, and has reignited concerns about the ...

In the early, uncertain days of the coronavirus pandemic, scientists delivered one comforting pronouncement: The virus that caused COVID mutates rather slowly. If that remained true, the virus ...

Violence has always been a scourge in Dayton, but a new program in the works is going to approach and treat it as a contagious disease. Dayton leaders hope that deploying public health strategies ...