Cuban American activist Rosa María Payá was voted into the Organization of American States (OAS)’s Inter-American Commission ...

Future pandemics will likely emerge from animals. Strengthening animal health systems, improving surveillance, and embedding ...

In the shadows of Python Cave, Uganda, a leopard leaps from a guano mound—formed by bat excrement—and sinks its teeth into a ...

The newly discovered 20 new bat viruses, include close relatives of deadly henipaviruses, raising global public health ...

Deadly viruses throughout history From the Ebola to COVID-19, diseases caused by viruses have killed humans throughout history. Viruses are much older than human beings, possibly even older than ...

This evaluation focuses on the preparedness of the World Bank Group, including the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), to support epidemic- and pandemic-related health ...

Dr. Fiona Havers, who studied medicine at the University of Washington, says the wholesale dismissal of the CDC's scientific advisers crossed the line for her.

With the rise of Trump and the MAGA movement, it’s as if we’ve deliberately injected ourselves with a fast-moving virus, similar to Ebola. Not a slow-creeping illness we can ignore, but a brutal ...

America is like a human body. Complex, interconnected, and astonishingly resilient — but not invincible. With the rise of Trump and the MAGA movement, it’s as if we’ve deliberately injected ourselves ...

According to a 2022 World Bank estimate, preventing a pandemic would cost approximately US$11 billion per year, while ...

Ebola is a zoonotic disease, meaning outbreaks typically begin when a person is exposed to infected animals (African fruit bats are thought to be a primary reservoir). But it can also spread ...

Ebola is hemorrhagic disease caused by the Ebola virus, which is endemic in parts of East-Central and West Africa. “The characteristic signs of EBOV include hemorrhagic fever, gastrointestinal ...