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

Analysis - In the shadows of Python Cave, Uganda, a leopard leaps from a guano mound - formed by bat excrement - and sinks its teeth into a bat. But this is no ordinary bat colony. The thousands of ...

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 ...

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.

The virus is moving widely, across geographies ... at the epicenter of a disease outbreak while the world looked away. In 2014, Ebola swept through the West African region. A single mutation ...

A new CDC-led study identifies deforestation as a leading indicator of Ebola virus spillover. Using machine learning and two decades of satellite data, researchers found that forest loss and ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health alert about an outbreak in Uganda of deadly Sudan virus disease, a viral hemorrhagic fever that is in the same family as Ebola.

Colorized transmission electron microscopic image showing the filamentous and curved morphology of an Ebola virus particle. [CDC/ Frederick A. Murphy] Researchers at the University of Iowa (UI ...

Rare, Ebola-like disease kills one in Iowa: What to know. The person had returned recently from a trip to West Africa. Lassa fever is a viral disease similar to the Ebola virus.

Of four species of Ebola viruses that can infect humans, Ebola virus species Zaire ebolavirus is the deadliest, with fatality rates of 70% to 90% if left untreated, the CDC said.

The CDC is warning American public health officials and clinicians about the rare Ebola-like Marburg virus reported in Tanzania and Equatorial Guinea, though there are no U.S. cases.