Donald Trump’s Health Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., reduced a key government immunizations committee to a “talk show” by ...

Imagine a virus so lethal that up to 90% of those infected don’t survive. That’s Marburg - a rare but extremely dangerous disease with no known cure. In this video, we explore its history, how it ...

Biden's chief of staff has agreed to talk to the House Oversight Committee about Biden's alleged cognitive decline and the use of the autopen.

Some staffers at the U.S. Agency for International Development describe racing the clock to try to push out promised funds for surviving global aid programs, ahead of USAID's last day as ...

In the shadows of Python Cave, Uganda, a leopard leaps from a guano mound—formed by bat excrement—and sinks its teeth into a ...

Sierra Leoneans are worried by the increasing number of mpox cases and deaths that have been recorded in 2025.

The World Health Organization warned on Friday that cholera cases in Sudan are set to rise and could spread to neighbouring countries, including Chad, which hosts hundreds of thousands of refugees ...

On Jan. 29, 2025, the Ministry of Health of Uganda officially declared an Ebola outbreak in Kampala, with 10 confirmed cases reported as of March. This marks the eighth Ebola outbreak in Uganda ...

The research, based on data from the massive 2018-2020 Ebola Zaire outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, showed that the risk of dying of Ebola was halved among people who had been ...

Infection by Ebola virus can be fatal, so understanding what drives human outbreaks might offer better ways to control it. Writing in Nature, Keita et al. 1 provide evidence that the 2021 outbreak ...

By now, the Kivu Ebola swarm has been going through its eighteen-hour replication cycle in humans for more than a year. Some virologists wonder whether Kivu Ebola could start evolving, or whether ...