Four top virologists provide a run down on the Nipah virus emerging from India - including how deadly it is and how likely it ...

The virus spreads from animals to humans, via person-to-person contact or through consuming contaminated food.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says that no fewer than 17 people have died from Lassa fever across eight ...

The agency said that 89 per cent of all confirmed cases were reported from Bauchi, Ondo, Taraba and Edo states, while the remaining 11 per cent came from five other states.

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New genetic evidence shows that infectious diseases began to develop in America thousands of years before contact with Europe ...

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Shirley Raines, who founded the organization Beauty 2 The Streetz, was a mother to six children ...