Human challenge study in the development of a vaccine refers to exposing healthy volunteers to a pathogen and then monitoring them in a cli...

Vinod Paul of Niti Aayog and Balram Bhargava, director general of ICMR, said India will play its part in developing and manufacturing Covid...

There is little doubt that Ebola would not have taken hold on the scale it did in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea if the health systems in...

Inadequate sanitation could prove to be the one of biggest challenges in tackling an Ebola outbreak in India, should the country reports it...

Ebola is transmitted through contact with bodily fluids, and Piot said there was no scientific evidence that the virus would become airborn...

So far, nearly 9,000 cases have been reported in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Spain and the US. Though India falls in t...

WHO declares effective Ebola vaccine will not be available before 2015;British pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline to start clinical trials of vac...

There are four types of Ebola virus that infect humans. The most deadly is this strain from the current epidemic, known as the 'Zaire strai...