Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins offered an implausible explanation for the outbreak of a flesh-eating parasite among ...

Millions of fans are expected to travel for the World Cup, with matches spanning North America. At Georgetown University, ...

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This story originally appeared in The Uptake, a weekly newsletter offering expert insights from the Bloomberg School of Public Health. In the DRC and Uganda, international and local health entities ...

With around 600 suspected cases and at least 130 deaths, the new Ebola outbreak in the Central African country of Congo has been declared a public health emergency of international concern by the ...

An outbreak of a rare strain of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo is already the third largest in history, just weeks after it likely began. It is spreading rapidly in one of the most volatile ...

The Ebola outbreak erupting from the Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo continues to escalate wildly, with cases nearing 750, deaths reported at 177, and around 1,400 contacts now ...

Dr. Neil Vora, an epidemiologist, warned that the spread of the Ebola virus in several African countries “will get worse before it gets better.” Vora, who worked for the Centers for Disease Control ...

The outbreak, with more than 8,000 confirmed cases and another 60,000 suspected infections, has prompted an emergency vaccination drive. By Saif Hasnat and John Yoon Saif Hasnat reported from Dhaka, ...

Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield said Wednesday he suspects the spreading Ebola outbreak in Africa will spread across three new countries and become a ...

Those data points are shocking researchers and public-health specialists: the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on 19 May that he is “deeply ...

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the World Health Organization’s director general, said the outbreak in central Africa was “not a pandemic emergency.” By Lynsey Chutel Nick Cumming-Bruce and Ephrat Livni ...