Blog - Infectious disease outbreaks remain a challenge in the West African region, driven in part by significant cross-border migration. The area has experienced persistent outbreaks of diseases that ...

Dr. Oliveira is the director of the Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation in South Africa. As a virus scientist in ...

Modern-style houses turn out to be attractive roosts for bats, which may carry pathogens that could one day jump to humans and trigger the next pandemic.

Researchers have developed an optical biosensor that detects the virus that causes mpox. The technology could make diagnosis much faster and cost-effective as the disease continues to spread worldwide ...

A new variant of human mpox has claimed the lives of approximately 5% of people with reported infections in the Democratic ...

Rwanda's health minister on Thursday said the outbreak of the often fatal Marburg virus in the country was at an end, with no new cases for nearly two weeks.

The first week was the worst. “It was very, very, very deadly because the people had an advanced stage of disease, and the ...

Maybe one way to describe it is that your fever gets so high that you take medication to bring it down, and it comes from 105 ...

In part 1 of this exclusive video interview, MedPage Today 's editor-in-chief Jeremy Faust, MD, talks with Craig Spencer, MD, MPH, of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, about the 10-year ...

Texans are warned about an Ebola-type disease that has been seen in the United States. This spread can be detrimental to not ...

Alia Citterio and Lane Joslin With living in a globalized world comes the foreboding prospect of disease that threatens our known and valued peace of day to day living. For us, global pandemics are ...

Three infectious diseases experts with the University of Nebraska Medical Center's Global Center for Health Security have ...