As childhood vaccinate rates drop in the U.S. outbreaks of measles are rising. In his new book, Booster Shots, Dr. Adam Ratner makes the case that this is a bad sign for public health.

Health authorities in Uganda say Ebola cases in the country have risen to nine while 265 other people are being monitored ...

The Red Cross voiced alarm Tuesday over the risk that fighting in the besieged DR Congo city of Goma could cause samples of Ebola and other pathogens held in a laboratory to escape.

contact with the body or body fluids of someone who died from Ebola disease sexual contact with someone who has Ebola disease contact with semen of someone who has recovered from Ebola disease During ...

A Louisiana aquarium welcomed a baby shark born under mysterious conditions, the aquarium said Friday. The swell shark, nicknamed Yoko, hatched on Jan. 3, according to the Shreveport Aquarium ...

(AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah, File) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] NEW YORK (AP) — A Texas man was sentenced to a year and a half in prison Wednesday over his effort ...

A Bolivian man has died after contracting Chapare virus, an Ebola-like disease so rare that there have only ever been 15 confirmed cases. The man, a farmer in his 50s, came down with a headache ...

Sylvia Trent-Adams has resigned as president of the University of North Texas Health Science Center ... stood up a hospital on a mission to fight Ebola in Liberia in 2014, and spent time treating ...

Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a record low. Protesters unload signs and speakers outside of the Texas ...

It is the U.N.’s specialized health agency and is mandated to coordinate the world’s response to global health threats, including outbreaks of mpox, Ebola and polio. It also provides technical ...

Marburg belongs to the same family of illnesses as Ebola and can cause death in up to 88% of cases. President Samia Suluhu Hassan said on Monday that at least one person in the northwest of the ...