Ebola is rare, deadly and has multiple variations. There is a vaccine for the Zaire type, now trials for another are underway ...

"If we don't know what the wildlife host is, we can't know how, where or when that will be." Scientists make major ...

U.S. health officials are telling Americans to take precautions if they travel to Uganda because of an Ebola outbreak.

The outbreak marks Uganda's eighth from an Ebola virus. The first confirmed case in the outbreak was a nurse at a hospital in the nation's capital, Kampala, who contracted Ebola on Jan. 20 or Jan. 21 ...

The Sudan virus, a close relative of Ebola, has a fatality rate of 50% but remains poorly understood in terms of how it infects cells. Currently, no approved treatments exist. To address this critical ...

But the coronavirus causes COVID, while the influenza virus causes the flu. COVID also spreads faster than the flu and remains contagious for longer periods. Both illnesses cause symptoms such ...

President Donald Trump signs an executive order on birthright citizenship in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) In a sweeping crackdown ...

The president of Tanzania has confirmed a case of the Marburg virus in the country. Marburg belongs to the same family of illnesses as Ebola and can cause death in up to 88% of cases. President ...

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Twenty-five other samples were negative, she said. Story continues below this ad Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact with the bodily ...

So far, one person has tested positive for Marburg, an Ebola-like virus ... and fly anywhere in the world," he explained. The incubation period of a virus is the time between exposure to ...

Leading health experts have issued information about a virus common in the colder months as latest figures noted a rise in cases across England. Human metapneumovirus (hMPV) has been hitting the ...