"We don’t need a commission to study the causes of chronic diseases because we already know them," writes Lawrence Gostin, Georgetown Law professor and a director at the WHO. Here's what he says we ...

A new model developed through the international Pediatric Emergency Research Network (PERN) creates a predictive tool that ...

The ARTIC 2.0 project will expand use of a low-cost, real-time genome sequencing technique used to detect COVID-19 variants ...

“Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.” When Joni Mitchell sang that line in 1970, she was lamenting the destruction of the environment, but the sentiment ...

In this exclusive interview with the WSWS, Dr. Daszak recounts the story of his persecution and that of other principled ...

Wu’s new bioinformatics tool addresses these limitations, expands the lens through which researchers can examine viral ...

Subunit vaccines isolate a portion of the microbe instead of the entire bug to create the immune response. Hepatitis B and ...

Ebola virus causes viral hemorrhagic fever, a deadly disease that primarily affects humans and non-human primates. Symptoms of Ebola virus disease can appear from 2 to 21 days after exposure ...

“What causes hesitancy is a lack of information ... Meanwhile, survivors of previous Ebola outbreaks urge people to be cautious and not to believe in rumours or conspiracy theories that could ...

Experts warn that extreme care must be taken when burying people who have died due to the diseaseImage: Luke Dray/Getty Images Ebola damages blood vessels and causes severe internal bleeding It ...

were in Equateur province where tropical forests are a natural reservoir for the virus that causes fever, aches and diarrhoea. Congo has had over a dozen past outbreaks of Ebola, including one in ...

Ebola is a terrifying virus which, if left untreated, causes bleeding inside the body and through the eyes, nose, mouth and rectum. Case fatality rates have varied from 25% to 90% in past ...