#Outbreak

Nigerian authorities continued monitoring 52 people who had been in contact with the woman, while Switzerland will take over her care

The World Health Organization reports that a nurse has been killed and a health worker severely injured in an attack while responding to an Ebola alert in Congo

The World Health Organization reports that a nurse has been killed and a health worker severely injured in an attack while responding to an Ebola alert in Congo.

Kampala says country is Ebola free, but Swiss authorities believe a woman diagnosed in Nigeria was infected in Uganda.

A census that deliberately counts fewer people while telling us less about them will leave our nation ill-prepared for future outbreaks and pandemics, write Julie Morita and Richard Besser.

When an outbreak strikes, humans try to avoid germs. (Remember wiping off groceries at the start of the pandemic?) What about ... monkeys?

The Ebola outbreak has now spread to four countries across eastern, central ⁠⁠and western Africa.

Switzerland says patient is wife of Swiss diplomat and believed to have contracted virus while travelling in Uganda

Infectious-disease researchers say the risk of the livestock pathogen moving between people is low.

As the deadly Ebola disease outbreak reached an eighth province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), investigators pursued all leads on Thursday to assess the risk of the disease spreading in Nigeria.

African health officials will hold a crisis meeting as the Ebola outbreak spreads from Congo to neighboring countries and beyond. The "extraordinary virtual meeting" will convene on October 28.

Experts deployed to the capital are on hand to assist with testing, infection control and awareness, in anticipation of imported cases

When the pathogen struck the City of Angels in 1924 authorities were quick to shut rumours down, much like the Russian response today

Macaques who survived the spread of a deadly disease were more wary of potentially contaminated food.

Case in Africa’s most populous country was detected in a woman who had travelled from Uganda

Kenya has confirmed its eighth Ebola case after a 49-year-old man tested positive as DR Congo battles an outbreak affecting eight provinces

Ahead of the midterms, voters in both parties fear recalls but split 40 points on oversight