This raises fresh concerns about the risk of animal pathogens infecting people.  Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

Illinois has reported its first human case of West Nile virus as county health departments across the Chicago area issue warnings for residents.

Infections that could trigger severe brain inflammation and respiratory disease have been discovered in bats in China. And there is currently no medication or vaccine to treat them.

As of 17 June 2025, there have been over 4,000 confirmed cases of mpox and 25 deaths in Sierra Leone, raising the possibility ...

Introduction. We are now living through the largest and most sustained Ebola epidemic that we have ever known and the projections suggest that things will get a lot worse before they get better.1 It ...

Introduction There has been no systematic comparison of how the policy response to past infectious disease outbreaks and epidemics was funded. This study aims to collate and analyse funding for the ...

By Gift BritonScientists are developing a single vaccine to protect against three deadly viruses that regularly strike Africa: Ebola Zaire, Sudan Ebola virus, and Marburg virus.These viruses cause ...