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The first case of the deadly Ebola virus has been detected in France after a doctor returned from a visit to the Congo.

NHS staff have been advised to prepare for potential Ebola cases reaching the UK due to a rapidly growing outbreak of the deadly virus in Africa.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus heads to Ituri province where the epidemic is centered and calls for a halt to fighting that hinders medical relief efforts

At least 118 people have died in an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with more than 390 suspected cases reported, according to local officials.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the Ebola outbreak spreading across the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), the highest level of global health alert under international law.

Four Australian citizens who were aboard the MV Hondius, the cruise ship at the centre of the hantavirus outbreak, will soon be home after the government secured a suitable aircraft and crew for the journey.

The head of the World Health Organization has told countries to prepare for more hantavirus cases as authorities in Paris said a French woman.

A French woman who tested positive for hantavirus after she was evacuated from a cruise ship reported symptoms to doctors onboard but was told it was probably just anxiety, the Spanish health minister has said.

Two rat plague ship evacuees have tested positive for the deadly disease just hours after health officials had given them the all-clear to leave the ship.

As the MV Hondius set sail from Ushuaia, the world’s southernmost city, on April 1st, the gray skies over Tierra del Fuego cleared, lighting up the fresh snow on the mountain peaks and the autumn foliage closer to the shore.

British passengers and crew from the cruise ship at the center of the hantavirus outbreak are set to be taken to a hospital in Merseyside to isolate.

Indian health authorities are tackling a Nipah virus outbreak after five cases of the incurable disease were detected.

Approximately 3.2 million people on Sumatra island have been affected, 2,600 have been injured, and 504 are missing.

Donald Trump’s administration withdrew from the World Health Organization in January, prompting the agency to scale back its work.

The outbreak, initially identified in three children who consumed a bat, has resulted in 431 cases and 53 deaths.

Senior doctors allege they endured months of physical abuse, while the UN urges the release of those still detained.

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to begin the process of withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization (WHO).

The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged China to share Covid data and allow access so scientists can understand its origins five years on from the outbreak of the deadly virus.

The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesu, says he was at a Yemeni airport when it was hit by Israeli air strikes.

Britain’s health security agency (UKHSA) said on Friday another case of the new mpox variant clade Ib has been detected in England, the fifth case confirmed in the country in recent weeks

A student has died of brain-swelling fever caused by a virus on the World Health Organization watchlist.

New campaign claims draft deal to improve global cooperation against outbreaks will cede UK sovereignty