A new study out of a Surrey-based university has found a link between colonial activity and the emergence of the Ebola virus. Christian Lange, PhD, a professor in the faculty of science at Kwantlen ...

A deadly virus has been engineered by Chinese scientists using a glycoprotein found in Ebola that wiped out a group of hamsters. Researchers at Hebei Medical University found that the hamsters ...

A POSSIBLE case of Ebola is being investigated by health officials in the UK. An area of Colchester Hospital in Essex was closed overnight so staff could deal with an “infection control issue”. Please ...

Uganda health authorities have declared an outbreak of Ebola disease. Ebola outbreaks emerge periodically in several African countries, most notably in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Public ...

When the virus hunters landed in the remote African village of Yambuku in 1976, the nuns warned them to stay back. The sisters had cordoned off the area where they were caring for people dying from a ...

In the prevailing climate of all-out vaccination against Covid-19, this information almost went unnoticed yet it is no less crucial, even historic. On October 6, the World Health Organisation (WHO) ...

Professor Jean-Jacques Muyembe says Ebola is defeated. He discovered the disease in 1976. Ebola killed 11 000 people in West Africa between 2013 and 2016. Ebola has been defeated. Vaccines and medical ...

KINSHASA, DR Congo — Ebola has been defeated. Vaccines and medical treatments have brought the deadly and terrifying disease under control, says Jean-Jacques Muyembe, the Congolese professor who first ...

Ebola has been defeated. Vaccines and medical treatments have brought the deadly and terrifying disease under control, says Jean-Jacques Muyembe, the Congolese professor who first discovered the virus ...

The covers of two nonfiction books by US author Richard Preston, Crisis in the Red Zone (left) and The Hot Zone. [Photo provided to China Daily] American author Richard Preston's latest best-seller is ...