The nine deaths happened in a short space of time in Sinoe county. The Liberian authorities have ruled out Ebola as the cause of the deaths of nine people from a mystery illness in the south-east of...
A mysterious disease has killed nine people in Liberia, leading the health authorities to issue guidelines to citizens on what to do as they investigate the illness. The BBC reports that the Chief...
All poultry in England will be allowed outside again from Thursday, having been kept indoors to protect them from an infectious strain of bird flu. The government has carried out a new assessment of...
Japan deployed hundreds of soldiers to help cull more than 280,000 chickens on Friday, officials said as they try to contain further outbreaks of a highly contagious strain of avian flu. The latest...
The UN's food agency on Friday urged China to step up efforts to contain and eliminate a strain of bird flu which has killed scores of people this year. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)...
Scientists announced Thursday that they have developed a vaccine to shield endangered chimpanzees and gorillas against Ebola, which has wiped out tens of thousands of the wild apes in three decades....
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) and the Ministry of Health (MoH), has discredited rumours of an Ebola outbreak in the country. An audio clip circulating on various social media platforms, suggested...
The Ghana Health Service has debunked information circulating on social media, suggesting that there is an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in Ghana. A statement signed by the Acting Director...
Salome Karwah fought past civil war and a deadly virus. But in Liberia, becoming a mother is too often a killer. By the time she was 26, Salome Karwah had defied death at least three times. She had...
The market in Ambam, a colonial town with brick-red cottages and rusty roofs, near the southern borders with Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, is a cluster of booth-sized shops and stalls. Under one...
China is experiencing its deadliest outbreak of the H7N9 bird-flu strain since it first appeared in humans in 2013, killing 79 people in January alone and spurring several cities to suspend live...
The majority of cases in the world’s largest outbreak of Ebola were caused by a tiny handful of patients, research suggests. The analysis, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of...
The majority of cases in the world’s largest outbreak of Ebola were caused by a tiny handful of patients, research suggests. The analysis, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of...
A highly effective vaccine that guards against the deadly Ebola virus could be available by 2018, says the World Health Organization. Trials conducted in Guinea, one of the West African countries...
The UK's chief veterinary officer said there is no need to panic as food safety is not at risk Britain on Friday announced the discovery of a highly contagious strain of bird flu at a turkey farm,...
More than 4,000 chickens have died since the outbreak of the Newcastle disease in Namibia early July this year. The disease that was first detected at Etunda in the north of the country about 760...
An employee at the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease in Winnipeg has potentially been exposed to the Ebola virus. The employee was working on Monday in a lab with pigs that had been infected...
The lingering shadow of Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone Hassan sits silently and stares into the distance, he has tired of brushing his hair and an upright comb is tangled into the back of his curls....
The Veterinary Services Department of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture in the Ashanti Region has announced an outbreak of African swine fever in parts of the region. Speaking in an interview...
A four-day ECOWAS health resilience training programme to equip selected individuals from the fifteen West African states has ended in Accra. The initiative is to create a Regional Rapid Response...
