The World Health Organisation and local health authorities are trying to identify a mystery illness that has caused at least ...

A MYSTERY disease has killed at least five people in Burundi. All the deaths occurred in the Mpanda district in the north of ...

Tourism at a cave swarming with bats known to have transmitted a deadly fever disease? The popularity of Uganda's Python Cave points to yet another way interactions at the animal-human interface—where ...

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At least nine people in southern Ethiopia have been infected with Marburg virus, a deadly illness similar to Ebola. This marks the country's first known outbreak of the highly contagious disease, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Congolese health worker administers the Ebola vaccine to a child in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo [File: Olivia ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a new health advisory about the latest outbreak of Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Thirty-seven confirmed cases ...