Researchers from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), and the International Livestock ...

Healthy pigs at ILRI's Clinical Research Facility. Image courtesy ILRI. An electron micrograph of an African swine fever virus particle ...

Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility of a global outbreak. This was the first time many had ever heard of the virus, ...

Zika virus uses stealth. Zika virus slips into dendritic cells and blocks the dendritic cells from alerting nearby T cells to danger. It's the classic horror movie cliche -- the creeper is already in ...

Five years ago the country's first national lockdown began. Now, as Ebola, Mpox and bird flu are deemed 'high risk', experts ...

Atravel advisory has been issued mandating that travellers have their body temperature checked at all points of entry ...

A decade after the worst of the virus’ 40 outbreaks killed 11,300 people, individuals who still bear its physical and mental ...

Health workers comb affected districts for remnant cases NEWS ANALYSIS | RONALD MUSOKE |  Uganda’s Ministry of Health ...

SCIENTISTS have found a pill that offers ‘100 per cent protection’ against Ebola – sparking hopes of eradicating the deadly ...

Influenza virus is an infectious agent belonging to the virus family Orthomyxoviridae that causes a respiratory tract infection (influenza or 'flu') in vertebrates. There are three main species ...

is caused by the marburg virus, a member of the filovirus family, similar to ebola. It's transmitted from bats to humans and ...