Measles is known for its characteristic rash, but it can have serious respiratory and neurologic complications.

Dr. Chris Foley, chief of clinical operations at CHKD, says measles is very preventable if vaccination rates increase.

In rural Tanzania, traditional healers are often the first point of care for people experiencing illness. From treating fevers and infections to addressing perceived spiritual afflictions, healers ...

Fighting by Islamic State and other terrorist groups over minerals and power has led to widespread killings and rape in the DRC. Disease, child slavery and Christian persecution stalk the population.

Dr. Herbert Luswata, president of the Uganda Medical Association, said that the Ebola response had been badly hampered by the ...

Africa’s top public health agency says that Uganda’s Ebola caseload increased to 14 in the last week with a new cluster ...

Influenza virus is an infectious agent belonging to the virus family Orthomyxoviridae that causes a respiratory tract infection (influenza or 'flu') in vertebrates. There are three main species ...

Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will lead to millions of preventable deaths. The ...

KAMPALA, Uganda -- A 4-year-old child became the second person to die this year of Ebola in Uganda, the World Health ...

The guest editorial by Eugene Robinson in the February 20-26 edition of The St. Louis American, “America’s new foreign policy: Who cares?,” notes that President Trump’s cuts in foreign aid (a program ...

On Saturday, renowned geneticist and former longtime NIH director Francis Collins announced that he has retired, leaving an ...

Is a new virus causing a disease outbreak and deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo, or is the cause already known to science? Another mystery disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...