Violence against health workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo is complicating the response to a massive measles outbreak and accelerating the spread of the disease, which has claimed twice as ...
A patient who was admitted to Toronto's Sunnybrook hospital with symptoms consistent with the Ebola virus has tested negative for the disease. The patient had recently returned from West Africa and ...
Since its first documentation in 1976, there have been more than three dozen outbreaks of Ebola virus disease in Central and West Africa, the largest of which resulted in the deaths of more than ...
Chief lab technician Boré Kaliva at the Prefecture Hospital in Yomou, Guinea, demonstrates the use of the Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) for Ebola virus in 2016. (Alaine Kathryn Knipes/CDC) The U.S.
When someone is infected with Ebola, the body mounts a strong immune response, as it does in response to many pathogens.
A training exercise saw 500 health providers practice emergency air transport to test their ability to handle a portable ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak is spreading at its fastest rate yet, eight months after it was first detected, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.
The Ebola outbreak that emerged in Guinea in mid-February was declared over today. It was the first time the disease resurfaced in the country since the deadly outbreak in West Africa that ended in ...