This week, Africa’s health outlook is shaped by mounting supply chain risks tied to global tensions, efforts to address non-communicable diseases, and persistent tuberculosis in southern Africa, ...
They had to get out, but no one wanted to touch them. It was July 2014, and two Americans were dying of Ebola in Liberia, the ...
Since its first documentation in 1976, there have been more than three dozen outbreaks of Ebola virus disease in Central and West Africa, the largest of which resulted in the deaths of more than ...
In September 2019, a pregnant 23-year-old woman tested positive for EBOV at 28 weeks’ gestation (day 1). She was admitted to the Ebola treatment unit (ETU) in Butembo, DRC. She presented with symptoms ...
A new paper in Genome Biology and Evolution, indicates that while the COVID-19 virus has developed rapidly since 2019, it has done so within limited genetic channels. These genetic limits have ...
Most pandemic viruses that have jumped from animals to humans do not show signs of special adaptations to infect people, except the 1977 influenza outbreak, which was likely “sparked by a laboratory ...
A little-known virus that causes nasty flu-like symptoms is spreading in California — and it doesn’t have a vaccine. Cases of human metapneumovirus (HMPV) have been steadily rising since winter began, ...
The New York City Department of Health confirmed the first case of a severe strain of the mpox virus, formerly known as monkeypox, in New York City. Health officials said Friday that the case is ...
Orthohantaviruses, such as the Puumala virus, are widespread in Europe, causing flu-like illnesses and severe kidney damage in those infected. It is increasingly considered a zoonotic threat.
Health officials in southern China are waging war on mosquitoes as the government tries to fight the spread of the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus. Most people infected with the virus develop ...
Scientists have uncovered a previously unknown feature of cell death that reshapes how the immune system identifies and ...
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