A Brantford woman just diagnosed with hepatitis C is convinced she contracted the virus from her dentist, Dr. George Chan.

The full impact of Congress failing to extend enhanced Obamacare subsidies at the end of last year is becoming clearer.

An American doctor infected with the Ebola virus has been flown to Berlin's Charite hospital for specialist treatment. His ...

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has assured travellers and stakeholders that heightened preventive measures have been activated across the country's international airports following ...

Kenya has activated a national incident management system through the Kenya National Public Health Institute, with rapid ...

Seven people who went to health facilities with symptoms consistent with Ebola have been cleared after testing negative. ...

A recent hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship echoes past pandemic scares. Experts warn Disease X, a future unknown pathogen, is a near certainty. This virus jumps from animals to humans. India faces ...

The World Health Organization's statement that the Andes strain of hantavirus can have long incubation periods is consistent with decades of scientific research, countering widely shared online claims ...

In Rough Edges, Mike Rothschild writes about fringe groups, conspiracy theories and how the Internet broke our brains. This ...

Several nations committed millions to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), a group founded to help ...

“Ebola and hantavirus are different viruses spreading under different circumstances, but both come from animals,” writes Neil ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen have shown that giant viruses long thought to exist only as fleeting, free-living particles that can embed themselves permanently in the ...