Bluetongue is the tip of the iceberg in terms of other vector-borne animal diseases that are coming in Ireland’s direction.

DengiAll, which is Panacea Biotec's tetravalent live-attenuated vaccine, uses weakened strains of all four DENV serotypes. As ...

Every dry season in Nigeria ushers in not just dusty winds and rising temperatures, but a deadly and often under-recognised ...

The Global Health and Infectious Diseases Research Group (GHID-KCCR) at the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR) has hosted ...

A MUTANT flu strain that has only been spotted in animals, is now “spreading undetected” humans, leading scientists have warned. The strain, dubbed “influenza D”, is mainly ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has deployed National Rapid Response Teams to multiple high-burden states as Lassa fever cases rise sharply nationwide, now including ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has called on state governments to step up contact tracing and other critical public health measures amid a worsening outbreak of Lassa fever, which has ...

Lassa fever is an acute viral haemorrhagic illness caused by the Lassa virus, a member of the arenavirus family.

In 1996, a previously healthy 5-year-old girl presented to a local urgent care clinic with a 3-day history of fever and a progressive, generalized vesicular rash, diagnosed as varicella with a known ...

The 74 confirmed cases in Week 6 were reported in Taraba, Ondo, Bauchi, Edo, Benue, Nasarawa, Kogi and Ebonyi states.

Nigeria's Lassa fever outbreak has resulted in 70 deaths. The NCDC urges states to intensify contact tracing to curb the rising fatality rate.

NBC has announced that 9-1-1 star Peter Krause will head up new spy drama Protection, which comes from Gossip Girl producer ...