The rare viral hemorrhagic fever can be transmitted among humans through infected body fluids, but not casual contact such as ...

In part 1 of this exclusive video interview, MedPage Today 's editor-in-chief Jeremy Faust, MD, talks with Craig Spencer, MD, MPH, of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, about the 10-year ...

Marie Roseline Darnycka Belizaire (L) helps to lead WHO efforts to tackle Ebola in the Democratic Republic ... more than five hours to a place because no cars, no motorcycles could get there ...

Other ways to get Ebola include touching contaminated needles, clothing, bedding, or medical equipment. There's no evidence that mosquitoes or other insects can spread it. You’re most likely to ...

The middle-aged resident had returned to Iowa from West Africa early in October, Iowa public health officials said.

A person from Iowa who recently returned to the United States from West Africa has died after contracting Lassa fever, a ...

Lassa fever, a disease normally found in West Africa, killed an Iowan this week. The eastern Iowa resident had recently ...

Officials confirmed Wednesday suspected German cases of the deadly Marburg virus tested negative, following fears the Ebola-like virus ... There are no vaccines or treatments approved to treat ...

UNMC's first Ebola patient, Dr. Richard Sacra ... At the time, Gold was the chancellor at UNMC. “No one will ever forget the moment we knew that he made it,” he said.

The Brief New Lab Opens: Emory University has launched a new lab to study how viruses spread on PPE and medical equipment. Ebola Experience: The team draws from their experience treating the first ...