Ebola outbreak has been declared in Africa this week, with up to nine people already dead. Uganda reported an outbreak in the capital, Kampala, with the first case being a man who died on ...

Zika transmission has been reported in more than 90 countries as the spread of the Aedes aegypti mosquito that carries the ...

Zika virus hijacks the skin of its human host to send out chemical signals that lure more mosquitoes to infect and spread the disease further, new research shows.

Scratching where it itches reduces the presence of potentially harmful bacteria on the skin, studies in mice show.

This follows reports from the World Health Organisation (WHO) indicating that eight people have died in a suspected outbreak of Marburg virus disease in Kagera Region. The government trusts that once ...

A POTENTIAL new outbreak of Ebola has sickened at least 12 people and killed eight in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It ...

The Marburg virus, a deadly relative of Ebola, has resurfaced in Tanzania, infecting nine and killing eight. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has issued a travel warning. No vaccine or specific ...

The disease is a close cousin of Ebola, causing similar symptoms and spreading in the same way. It can cause death in up to ...

Tanzania’s president says one sample from a remote northern part of the country has tested positive for Marburg disease, a ...

The World Health Organisation warned that the risk of the outbreak spreading to neighbouring countries is high.

DAR ES SALAAM, - Tanzania's government said no-one in the country had tested positive for the Marburg virus after the World Health Organization said at least eight people in the northwest were ...

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – Tanzania’s government said no-one in the country had tested positive for the Marburg virus after the World Health Organization (WHO) said at least eight people in the ...