The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has reached 1,561 confirmed cases and 506 deaths — making it the third-largest Ebola epidemic on record — as European health authorities issued a ...

Inside a small laboratory at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, a technician splits a sputum sample in two. Half goes into a GeneXpert machine, the workhorse of ...

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Local healthcare workers take part in an accelerated training session at the Scott Powell Memorial Ebola Treatment Center on the use of single-use personal protective equipment, including procedures ...

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Cepheid, a Danaher company, today announced it has donated an initial shipment of Xpert® Hemorrhagic Fever panel tests to support the diagnostic response to the Ebola Bundibugyo (BDBV) outbreak in the ...

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An Ohio University researcher is leading a study that could pave the way for new treatments to prevent dangerous infections in heart failure patients. The American Heart Association has awarded a ...

A chronic lack of investment in development of better tests has left clinicians blind and allows deadly viruses to spread unchecked. By Stephanie Nolen Stephanie Nolen reports on global health, ...

Just six years after the COVID-19 pandemic, the world seems to be moving away from pandemic preparedness, rather than towards it. A surge in Ebola cases in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo ...