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THE KILLER DISEASE WITH NO VACCINE
Lassa fever is not a new disease, but the current outbreak is unprecedented, spreading faster and further than ever before... READ MORE›
WORLD'S DEADLIEST GERMS NEED NEW HOME THAT CDC WANTS $400 MILLION FOR
A general view of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC headquarters in Atlanta, Sept. 30, 2014... READ MORE›
VILLAGERS STILL WAITING FOR SHARE OF $6.5M DIAMOND
The villagers who dug up Sierra Leone's 6.5m peace diamond say they are still waiting for a share of the sale... READ MORE›
SOUTH KOREA STRUGGLING TO CONTAIN NOROVIRUS OUTBREAK AT OLYMPICS
The Olympic organizing committee said 63 of those sickened, mostly security staff, were staying at a youth training center in PyeongChang... READ MORE›
A SALTY CURE FOR A DEADLY FROG DISEASE
Chytridiomycosis is an infectious disease caused by the chytrid fungus and blamed for wiping out more than a third of the world's frog species... READ MORE›
MAPPED: THE MOST DANGEROUS DISEASES AROUND THE WORLD
Meanwhile, Western nations have developed diets and lifestyles which allow chronic non-communicable diseases to flourish... READ MORE›
AFTER 500 YEARS, DNA TESTS MAY HAVE IDENTIFIED GERM BEHIND MEXICAN PANDEMIC
Analyzing DNA extracted from 29 skeletons buried in a cocoliztli cemetery, they found traces of the salmonella enterica bacterium, of the Paratyphi C variety... READ MORE›
ENDING CHILD MARRIAGE IN EGYPT - FRANCE 24
Also, how an international outcry forced the Sierra Leone government to reverse its ban on pregnant teenagers receiving an education... READ MORE›
THAT'S SICK! HUMANS CAN IDENTIFY INFECTED PEERS FROM A PHOTO
Further study is needed to determine whether levels of infection detection are similar across diseases and ethnic groups... READ MORE›
FUNGAL DISEASE COULD KILL OFF SNAKES AROUND THE WORLD
Although molting can resolve most cases, snakes can die from the infection... READ MORE›
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CUDDLING KITTENS CAN KILL YOU, WARN SCIENTISTS
Doctors from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the US conducted a large-scale survey of the cat-borne bacterial disease cat scratch fever... READ MORE›
ONCE TIME'S 'PERSON OF THE YEAR,' AN EBOLA FIGHTER DIES IN CHILDBIRTH DUE TO STIGMA OF VIRUS
More than 11,000 people died in the Ebola outbreak, although 17,000 who contracted the virus survived... READ MORE›
SIERRA LEONE APPEALS FOR URGENT HELP FOR FLOOD VICTIMS
Paolo Conteh, the interior minister, told Sierra Leone's state broadcaster that thousands of people remained missing... READ MORE›
NORTH KOREA CLAIMS IT HAS DISCOVERED CURE FOR AIDS, EBOLA, MERS AND SARS
The North's claim comes as rival South Korea fights an outbreak of Mers that has killed two dozen people and infected more than 160 since last month... READ MORE›
FOUR CLOSE TO U.S. EBOLA PATIENT QUARANTINED IN DALLAS APARTMENT
None of those thought to have had contact with the patient were showing symptoms of Ebola, Dallas County officials said at a news conference... READ MORE›
WINNIPEG LAB EMPLOYEE POSSIBLY EXPOSED TO EBOLA VIRUS
An employee at the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease in Winnipeg has potentially been exposed to the Ebola virus... READ MORE›
HOSPITAL MISTAKES BLAMED FOR US TRANSMISSION
Farmers in Sierra Leone who have deserted their land because of the Ebola outbreak are being encouraged to go back to work... READ MORE›
SIERRA LEONE DECLARED FREE OF EBOLA TRANSMISSIONS
In Sierra Leone, the hardest hit of any nation during the Ebola outbreak, nearly 4,000 people died from the disease altogether 14,000 were infected... READ MORE›
HIV SPREADS LIKE COMPUTER WORMS, SAY SCIENTISTS
New model equates spread of worm across local networks and internet with progress of Aids virus through the body, suggesting early treatment is vital... READ MORE›
SIERRA LEONE DECLARED FREE OF DISEASE
Dr Oliver Johnson, from the King's Sierra Leone partnership, worked at an Ebola clinic in Freetown, and has strong links with medical professionals there... READ MORE›
TEXAS REPORTS FIRST CASE IN THE USA OF SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED ZIKA VIRUS
Texas health officials reported the first case of sexual transmission of the Zika virus in the USA on Tuesday... READ MORE›
LIBERIA IS FREE OF EBOLA, SAYS WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
Liberia is free of Ebola after going 42 days without any new cases, the World Health Organization WHO announced Saturday... READ MORE›
BIRD FLU FOUND ON BRITISH DUCK FARM NOT THE DEADLY H5N1 STRAIN
On the basis of what we know of the strain to date, Public Health England has said that this strain does not present a threat to public health."... READ MORE›
DOCTORS RUDELY WARN PUBLIC NOT TO SNUGGLE KITTENS
Cat-scratch fever is caused by a bacteria found in fleas... READ MORE›
TESTS SHOW NEW EBOLA VACCINE IS 'HIGHLY EFFECTIVE'
Pharmaceutical companies only agreed to develop Ebola vaccines after the West African epidemic spiraled out of control last year, affecting thousands of people... READ MORE›
BRAZIL EBOLA CASE TESTS NEGATIVE
Souleymane Bah went to a public health centre in the town of Cascavel in the southern state of Parana after suffering a fever... READ MORE›
ANALYSIS | HOW WAR BROUGHT CHOLERA AND POLIO BACK TO THE MIDDLE EAST
A child receives treatment at a hospital amid a serious cholera outbreak in Sanaa, Yemen's capital, on June 14... READ MORE›
PAULINE CAFFERKEY THE BRITISH NURSE WHO CONTRACTED EBOLA WHILE VOLUNTEERING IN SIERRA LEONE HAS LEFT HOSPITAL AFTER MAKING A COMPLETE RECOVERY
Miss Cafferkey said she was happy to be alive and thanked staff at the Royal Free Hospital in London who she said had saved her life... READ MORE›
WHO DECLARES END OF ZIKA EMERGENCY BUT SAYS VIRUS REMAINS A THREAT
Officials on WHO's Emergency Committee made clear the Zika still constitutes a global public health threat... READ MORE›
RE-EMERGENCE OF EBOLA IN LIBERIA REMAINS A MYSTERY
The six new infections in Liberia since June 21 include two deaths... READ MORE›
GUINEA LAST NATION WITH EBOLA MAY SOON BE DECLARED FREE OF VIRUS
A Scottish nurse became critically ill last month after having recovered from Ebola, which she contracted doing charity work in Sierra Leone nearly a year ago... READ MORE›
U.S. FDA KNEW DEVICES SPREAD FATAL 'SUPERBUG' BUT DOES NOT ORDER FIX
Last month, Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle said a bacteria spread through contaminated scopes had infected 32 people over two years 11 died... READ MORE›
EBOLA EPIDEMIC FUELLED BY 'SUPER-SPREADERS': STUDY
Most of the people who were infected with Ebola in the 2014 West Africa epidemic contracted the viral disease through super-spreaders, researchers say... READ MORE›
BRAZIL ON HIGH ALERT AS YELLOW FEVER THREATENS MAJOR CITIES
What we have is an epidemic of disinformation about yellow fever ..... READ MORE›
AUSSIE DIAGNOSED WITH ZIKA AFTER BALI MONKEY BITE, EXPERTS WARN OF MISSED CASES
They had stumbled on a 27-year local man who contracted the disease despite having never travelled outside of Indonesia... READ MORE›
OFFICIALS KNEW ABOUT INDIA'S FIRST ZIKA CASE FOR MONTHS. BUT THEY DIDN'T TELL ANYBODY.
Felipe Dana AP Officials in India knew about the country's first case of Zika virus infection months ago... READ MORE›
EBOLA NURSE HITS OUT AT 'BLAME CULTURE' AT PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND
Pauline Cafferkey criticises health body over botched airport screening process after fellow nurse Donna Wood suspended... READ MORE›
EBOLA IS ALL BUT OVER, BUT THE POSTMORTEM IS JUST GETTING STARTED
But because of the extreme inadequacies of healthcare and surveillance systems in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, Ebola was first diagnosed only in March 2014... READ MORE›
VICTORY AS GUINEA IS DEEMED FREE OF EBOLA
Of all the countries where Ebola spread, the virus proved hardest to eradicate from Guinea, experts said... READ MORE›
U.S. TO ISSUE NEW EBOLA CARE GUIDELINES, WATCH LISTS TO SHRINK
There are still 75 health workers in Dallas who have isolated themselves and are being monitored... READ MORE›