WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the U.N. health agency was revising upward to "very high" its assessment of the risk w...

A hantavirus scare aboard a cruise ship off Cape Verde prompted a rapid scientific response, with researchers in Senegal quickly identifyin...

Ebola Vaccines are only available for the Zaire strain, which was identified in 1976 and has a higher fatality rate of 60-90 per cent.

America is increasing safety measures against Ebola. Travelers from affected regions will be screened. Visa services are temporarily stoppe...

WHO 79th World Health Assembly: World Health Organization member states meet in Geneva. Deadly hantavirus and Ebola outbreaks are major con...

Scientists in Chile developed antibodies that successfully neutralised the deadly Andes hantavirus in lab and animal studies, raising hopes...

The Food and Drug Administration OK'd the drug developed by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals for treating adults and children with the Zaire Ebola...

The team of physicians said the creation of a USD 2 billion global vaccine-development fund could prevent the future outbreak of many deadl...

Bill Gates said we should worry about a future epidemic that is much more contagious than Ebola, one that spreads via the air, like a deadl...

The prototype will do a better job than current garments in keeping health care workers from coming in contact with contagious body fluids.

The Ebola crisis, which has been the only story here in the US for the last couple of weeks, is not an outbreak and epidemic here, he said.

"Time is our biggest enemy. We must use every minute of every day to our advantage and that is what UNMEER is doing."

India's Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Asoke Mukerji told the UN General Assembly that the Indian government has put in plac...

The UN CERF has so far committed $ 13.4 million to support food and health operations as well as the regional humanitarian air service.

The UN Security Council has also declared the outbreak of the virus in West Africa a "threat to international peace and security".

In this new role Powell will lead the State Department's outreach to international partners, including foreign governments.

President Barack Obama is sending 3,000 American military personnel to combat the spread of the deadly virus Ebola.