U of A researcher Kristian Forbes has joined the ZOOSURY project with the University of Helsinki to grow a better understanding of how bats transmit diseases to humans in Africa.

Addis Ababa, 20 February 2026 —The Principal Advisor for Programmes Management at the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), Ngashi Ngongo has lauded Ethiopia’s swift and ...

Closely related to Ebola, the Marburg virus causes severe hemorrhagic fever with a high fatality rate. With no widely ...

In September 2024, Dr. Sabin Nsanzimana, Rwanda’s minister of health, was in a training exercise simulating an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever. Later that month, he and his colleagues confronted an ...

Pediatricians at Penn State Health Golisano Children’s Hospital are seeing flu, strep throat, ear infections, RSV and pneumonia. UPMC Children’s Community Pediatrics is seeing flu, RSV and viral sore ...

Despite political endorsements and global frameworks, Africa's One Health approach continues to falter at the local level, where weak coordination, limited resources, and poor governance often delay ...

Across Africa, One Health is endorsed at the top but often breaks down where outbreaks start, writes Albert Ansah. Despite political endorsements and global frameworks, Africa’s One Health approach ...

Researchers at UC San Francisco have uncovered a new clue to how Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) could contribute to multiple sclerosis (MS), a chronic autoimmune disease that affects nearly one million ...

A virus that originated in a type of fruit bat has been identified in India, spurring protective public health measures across that country. The Nipah virus is a potentially lethal disease that has ...

Share on Pinterest Despite the recent outbreak in India, health experts suggest the Nipah virus is an unlikely candidate for a global pandemic. Image credit: CharlesGibson/Getty Images Two new cases ...