Experts in the Democratic Republic of Congo are struggling to keep up as the virus spreads to new areas, stretching the human and financial resources available to fight it.

Doctors have shown the immune system can be primed to keep the virus in check — a promising advance just as US funding cuts threaten future research.

Six Ebola checkpoints in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo stopped reporting last month because the people staffing them hadn’t been paid.

The battle over Covid’s origins has come for Bob Garry, who’s faced some of the world’s deadliest viral threats.

The battle over Covid’s origins has come for Bob Garry, who’s faced some of the world’s deadliest viral threats.

Scientists are exploring the possibility that some of the most infectious versions of the coronavirus — omicron and its descendants — came from chronically infected individuals whose immune systems we...

In After Covid, award-winning journalist Jason Gale presents a thorough exploration of the pandemic's profound impacts and the ongoing challenges it creates. Through meticulously researched accounts, ...

Hear from six pediatricians in measles hot spot Utah as the U.S. faces infection levels not seen in over three decades and prepares to lose its status as a country that eliminated the dangerous diseas...

Confirmed Ebola deaths in Democratic Republic of Congo have surpassed 1,000, prompting Africa’s top public health official to warn the outbreak could become one of the worst on record unless transmiss...

Confirmed Ebola deaths in Democratic Republic of Congo have surpassed 1,000, prompting Africa’s top public health official to warn the outbreak could become one of the worst on record unless transmiss...

Frontline health workers in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo may soon be offered an experimental vaccine regimen against the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, as researchers test whether it can provide ...

The ongoing 2026 Bundibugyo virus disease (BVD) public health emergency of international concern in DR Congo and Uganda has exposed gaps in preparedness for non-zairense orthoebolaviruses. With BVD va...

Some doctors call it “walking Ebola” — symptoms of the rare Bundibugyo strain appear to worsen slowly, leaving patients sick enough to spread the virus but not so unwell to stop them moving through th...

Some doctors call it “walking Ebola” — symptoms of the rare Bundibugyo strain appear to worsen slowly, leaving patients sick enough to spread the virus but not so unwell to stop them moving through th...

As more patients recover from the world’s largest recorded As more patients recover from the world’s largest recorded Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak, doctors are beginning to piece together how the rare vi...

Patients with the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola have started receiving experimental treatments in a clinical trial that aims to improve care for the rare viral disease, which has killed more than 500 peo...

KINSHASA: A deadly Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has spread to a fourth province, meaning the country's entire northeast – home to around 15 million people – is now affected.

Where bird flu stands in Australia right now, which states have been affected, the real risk to people and poultry, and what biosecurity rules apply.

As more patients recover from the world’s largest recorded Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak, doctors are beginning to piece together how the rare virus behaves — offering the clearest picture yet of one of t...

Scientists racing to develop potential vaccines and treatments against a deadly Ebola outbreak are having to do so without a viable sample of the virus, highlighting growing disputes over pathogen sha...

A strain of avian influenza known as H5N1 has proved alarmingly adept at jumping continents and species.

Ebola cases have surpassed 1,000 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where health workers are becoming infected before anyone realizes they’re treating the deadly virus, exposing a dangerous weak...