By Elodie Toto On May 28, 2026, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization, sent an open letter to the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo before ...

A Kenyan court halted a planned Ebola quarantine facility there, which US officials said would be used to quarantine American ...

Several patients are being treated for a deadly and rare strain of hantavirus after they were sickened on a cruise ship.

The European Medicines Agency said on Friday COVID-19 vaccines for the 2026-27 vaccination campaign ​in Europe should preferably be updated to ‌target the XFG variant.

There are reports of internal infighting at the CDC over the U.S. Response to Ebola, potentially complicating the response to ...

The legacy of Neandertals in modern people has often been framed as a genetic gift for fighting infection. This time, the ...

Researchers have found surprising links that show that Neanderthal ancestry influences our immune system today in ways more nuanced than previously recognized. Their work is published in the journal ...

The cost of CAR T-cell therapy means that the highly effective cancer treatment is unavailable in many parts of the world.

The types of Ebola and hantavirus worrying officials are very different from the species identified decades ago, raising new ...

When scientists sent bacteria-infecting viruses to the International Space Station, the microbes did not behave the same way they do on Earth. In microgravity, infections still occurred, but both ...

Advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will discuss whether COVID-19 vaccines should be updated to target the latest circulating XFG subvariant for the ​2026-27 immunization campaign, ...