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Response to the Ebola outbreak was slow but there are things we can take from it.

There has been an epidemic outbreak of Marburg virus in Equatorial Guinea for the first time. Here’s what you need to know about the virus, and how it spreads.

Two deadly viruses are ravaging the DRC. Why are we only hearing about one of them?

Governments in West Africa and international aid agencies should help facilitate adoptions locally and provide better health care and education to support entire communities.

Pictures of masked and gowned healthcare workers have become recurrent images as the Ebola virus continues to spread in West Africa. It is the largest Ebola virus outbreak ever recorded, and the death…

Nigeria has a massive battle tackling Lassa fever.

Media coverage of the growing Ebola epidemic in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia has presented world audiences with apocalyptic predictions of ultimate death tolls and grisly imaginings of its spread to…

The world has been warned that the current Ebola epidemic may not end without the use of a vaccine – and no licensed vaccines exist yet. That may soon change, because scientists are making swift progress…

Three experts explain how the rare Bundibugyo strain of Ebola may have crossed continents.

Too slow. Too little, too late. Unprecedented. Out of control. These are just some of the descriptors for the biggest recorded epidemic of human infection by an ebolavirus. The question by some is how…