<p>Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone have been struggling since March to stop what has become the largest Ebola outbreak ever recorded. The disease is causing widespread fear and disruption in West ...

Emergency vaccination programmes – rolled out in response to outbreaks of five major diseases – are believed to have reduced deaths by around 60% over a period of 23 years, according to a new study, ...

Despite lessons from the Ebola and COVID-19 pandemics, Nigeria's readiness for an outbreak of diseases such as Lassa Fever is ...

Catch up on the epidemiology of the current Ebola outbreak in this brief overview, and learn about the treatments and vaccines currently under development.

The 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak, which killed more than 11,000 people, was the deadliest the world has ever seen. The United States spent millions to help contain it.

An independent investigator is being sanctioned by the United States over her work scrutinizing human rights abuses in the ...

As of 17 June 2025, there have been over 4,000 confirmed cases of mpox and 25 deaths in Sierra Leone, raising the possibility that the virus will spread to neighboring countries and spark a larger ...

As the world marks World Zoonoses Day today, Wild Africa is calling for urgent and consistent action to reduce the risk of ...

Professor Calum Semple OBE has been appointed the Scottish Government’s next Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA). Professor Semple ...

While Uganda has been recording a decrease in Mpox cases since late May and recently declared the end of Ebola outbreak, ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services is weighing whether to fund new Marburg and Sudan Ebola virus vaccines even as Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. overhauls the US immunization landscape, ...