Disease outbreaks from Lassa fever to Ebola raise concern, but do they make Africa the world's sickest continent? Here's the ...

African officials must step up financing to respond and develop vaccines for the Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda.

The White House this week requested Congress approve $1.4 billion to fight the Ebola outbreak.

When South African infectious disease specialist Lucille Blumberg checked her email on the morning of May 1, while the country was celebrating the Labor Day holiday, an urgent message caught her ...

Rice yellow mottle virus (RYMV) is responsible for high crop losses in Africa, particularly among small-scale farmers. A research team has now produced rice lines that are resistant to the disease by ...

NAIROBI, July 1 (Reuters) - Ugandan health authorities have confirmed an isolated case of Marburg virus disease, a highly infectious hemorrhagic fever, while conducting surveillance for an Ebola ...

Mpox (formerly monkeypox) has officially been declared a public health emergency by the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The African agency reported an increase in the disease ...

The confirmed infection of a U.S. humanitarian worker supporting the response in Bunia adds urgency to the protection of ...

While African Americans have slightly lower cholesterol levels than other racial groups, they are more likely to die from heart disease. Socioeconomics, lifestyle, and racism in medicine all play a ...

Weak surveillance and climate change could allow deadly hantaviruses to spread unnoticed across African countries, raising the risk of future outbreaks.