More than 1,000 cases of Ebola have been confirmed in the DRC in 2026. A comparison of three major outbreaks shows how ...

Knowing the difference between endemic, epidemic, and pandemic helps people better understand public health updates and disease-related news. These terms provide important information about how widely ...

What is urgently needed is a shift from pathogen-specific diagnostics toward pathogen-agnostic diagnostic systems,” write ...

A fast-spreading Ebola outbreak in Congo is now a global health emergency. What to know about the Bundibugyo virus, how it spreads and the symptoms.

The WHO has declared a global health emergency over a rare Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in DRC and Uganda. A doctor explains what could happen next.

The three affected provinces in the northeast have long been gripped by conflict and mass displacement, complicating the response to the outbreak.

When Peter Piot first encountered the Ebola virus, it was unknown to science. Nearly 50 years later, as a new outbreak spreads through parts of Central Africa and governments respond with travel ...

Biomedical waste generated during epidemic outbreaks surges dramatically, encompassing infectious materials, used personal protective equipment and pathological residues. Rapid containment requires ...

Bryan Alsip, chief medical officer at University Health, saw a virus spread right in front of him during his time in the ...

In January 1962, three schoolgirls at a mission boarding school near Lake Victoria in what was then called Tanganyika began ...

Mr Nsibirwa said the Kingdom has a proven record of partnering with government to tackle public health emergencies ...

The plight of hundreds of children infected with HIV through alleged unsafe medical practices at Karachi's Kulsoom Bai Valika Hospital belongs squarely in the latter category. This is an indictment of ...