Animal virology
Fear Grips Liberians As Mystery Disease Claims 9 Lives
A mysterious disease has killed nine people in Liberia, leading the health authorities to issue guidelines to citizens...
Poultry In England Allowed Outside As Anti-Bird Flu Measures Relaxed
All poultry in England will be allowed outside again from Thursday, having been kept indoors to protect them from an...
Japan Culls 280,000 More Birds For Avian Flu
Japan deployed hundreds of soldiers to help cull more than 280,000 chickens on Friday, officials said as they try to...
UN Urges China To Act As Bird Flu Deaths Spike
The UN's food agency on Friday urged China to step up efforts to contain and eliminate a strain of bird flu which has...
Vaccine Created To Protect Ebola-Ravaged Chimps
Scientists announced Thursday that they have developed a vaccine to shield endangered chimpanzees and gorillas against...
Ghana Health Service Discredits Ebola Outbreak Rumours
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) and the Ministry of Health (MoH), has discredited rumours of an Ebola outbreak in the...
Ghana Health Service Condemns False Ebola Outbreak Report
The Ghana Health Service has debunked information circulating on social media, suggesting that there is an outbreak of...
A Woman Survives Ebola But Not Pregnancy In Africa
Salome Karwah fought past civil war and a deadly virus. But in Liberia, becoming a mother is too often a killer. By the...
Bushmeat Trade Tests Cameroon’s Ebola Prevention
The market in Ambam, a colonial town with brick-red cottages and rusty roofs, near the southern borders with Equatorial...
Bird-Flu Deaths Rise In China, Shutting Poultry Markets
China is experiencing its deadliest outbreak of the H7N9 bird-flu strain since it first appeared in humans in 2013,...
Ebola ‘super-Spreaders’ Cause Most Cases
The majority of cases in the world’s largest outbreak of Ebola were caused by a tiny handful of patients, research...
Ebola ‘super-Spreaders’ Cause Most Cases
The majority of cases in the world’s largest outbreak of Ebola were caused by a tiny handful of patients, research...
Successful Ebola Vaccine Will Be Fast-Tracked For Use
A highly effective vaccine that guards against the deadly Ebola virus could be available by 2018, says the World Health...
Bird Flu Hits British Turkey Farm
The UK's chief veterinary officer said there is no need to panic as food safety is not at risk Britain on Friday...
Namibia Loses 4,000 Chickens To Newcastle Disease
More than 4,000 chickens have died since the outbreak of the Newcastle disease in Namibia early July this year. The...
Canada Lab Worker May Be Exposed To Ebola
An employee at the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease in Winnipeg has potentially been exposed to the Ebola...
The Lingering Shadow of Ebola Outbreak In Sierra Leone
The lingering shadow of Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone Hassan sits silently and stares into the distance, he has tired...
Outbreak of Swine Fever Hits Ashanti Region
The Veterinary Services Department of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture in the Ashanti Region has announced...
ECOWAS Sets Up Rapid Response Team To Help Contain Disease Outbreaks
A four-day ECOWAS health resilience training programme to equip selected individuals from the fifteen West African...