Niger became the first African country to eliminate the parasitic infection onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness, and the fifth worldwide, according to World Health Organisation (WHO).

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has asked doctors and health experts to start revewing Americans for the ...

President Donald Trump , who announced the US would withdraw from the World Health Organization, has floated a proposal to ...

The Trump administration is limiting the nation’s ability to respond to infectious disease as Marburg, Ebola rise ...

Ugandan officials initiated a clinical trial on Monday for a vaccine targeting the Sudan strain of Ebola, which has resulted ...

Fighting between Rwanda-backed rebels and the Congolese army has placed millions of people at high risk of death from the ...

During a closed-door meeting with diplomats last week, WHO officials discussed the potential financial and operational impact of losing its largest donor ...

NINE people have died in a new outbreak of an ‘eye-bleeding’ Ebola-like virus, global health chiefs have warned.Marburg, one of the deadliest pathogens ever discovered, has already infected ten people ...

An Ebola outbreak has been reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Experts share concerns about the highly ...

Africa's health agency has announced nine people have died in an outbreak of an eye-bleeding disease. It comes after the World Health Organisation announced there were eight suspected deaths earlier ...

Staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been told to halt all communication with the World Health ...

President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization (WHO) will be keenly felt across the ...