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Illinois has reported its first human case of West Nile virus as county health departments across the Chicago area issue warnings for residents.

A dangerous mpox outbreak is unfolding in Sierra Leone. In just the first week of May, cases rose by 61%, and suspected cases ...

The Chicago hospitals will serve as "Elite Special Pathogen Treatment Centers" with the $1.5 million from IDPH.

The CDC said Uganda is experiencing an outbreak of Sudan virus disease (SVD) in Kampala, Mbale and Wakiso. SVD is a type of Ebola disease caused by infection with the Sudan virus.

What causes Marburg virus? Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats.It can spread between people through close contact with the bodily fluids of infected individuals or with surfaces ...

Chinese Scientists Create Mutant Ebola Virus In Lab That Causes Horrific Symptoms When they harvested the organs of the dead animal, they found the virus had accumulated in the heart, liver ...

Ebola is an often-fatal virus that causes severe inflammation and tissue damage throughout the body. Of four species of Ebola viruses that can infect humans, ...

Amid two outbreaks of the Marburg virus, a cousin of Ebola which causes a severe and often fatal disease, here's what you need to know about symptoms, transmission, and prognosis.

The virus, which belongs to the same family as the Ebola virus, causes severe viral hemorrhagic fever in humans with an average case fatality rate of around 50%.

World Health Organization officials confirmed in February an outbreak in Equatorial Guinea of the highly infectious disease, which is in the same family as the virus that causes Ebola. Thursday ...