How can a virus with only five proteins dominate a human cell that contains thousands? This question has long puzzled ...

Hospitals are seeking nurses with more-advanced degrees than before, partly in response to an increasingly complex health-care system. Hospitals reduce needle sticks and other discomforts by drawing ...

At least nine people in southern Ethiopia have been infected with Marburg virus, a deadly illness similar to Ebola. This marks the country's first known outbreak of the highly contagious disease, the ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a new health advisory about the latest outbreak of Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Thirty-seven confirmed cases ...

The Centers for Disease Control issued a health alert on a new outbreak of Ebola virus disease. No cases have been reported in Florida or the U.S. The risk of spread to the U.S. is considered low at ...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Vaccination for those exposed to the Ebola virus and front-line health workers has begun in southern Kasai province, the World Health Organization said Sunday. An outbreak of the ...

Sept. 14 (UPI) --The World Health Organization announced Sunday that a vaccination campaign for frontline workers and people infected with Ebola has begun in the Democratic Republic of Congo. An ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo is battling a widening Ebola outbreak, as overstretched health services raise the threat of the disease spreading beyond its borders. The number of suspected cases ...

Driving medicines from Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, to the south-central province of Kasai takes almost three days. That is bad news for people there who have recently ...

Health officials have recorded 28 suspected cases and 15 fatalities so far in the latest outbreak of the deadly virus, which has claimed thousands of lives in previous outbreaks in the Central African ...

Researchers from the University of Hong Kong have discovered that the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), a common human virus closely linked to nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), can change the 3D structure of ...

DAKAR, Senegal — A new Ebola outbreak in Congo is suspected of causing 15 deaths among 28 people with symptoms, the health ministry in the central African country said Thursday. It’s the 16th outbreak ...