Ebola virus disease is a rare but often deadly condition that causes fever, body aches, diarrhea, and sometimes bleeding inside and outside the body. It's caused by viruses commonly called Ebola ...

The middle-aged resident had returned to Iowa from West Africa early in October, Iowa public health officials said.

The rare viral hemorrhagic fever can be transmitted among humans through infected body fluids, but not casual contact such as ...

An Iowa resident died from an Ebola-like disease rarely seen in the United States, according to state officials. The Iowa ...

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They crafted policies that rejected the scientific evidence on Ebola transmission and adopted measures far more restrictive than those recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and ... have been ...

As the death rate rose in the Boar’s Head listeria outbreak, one could not help but wonder if this might top the 2008 Maple Leaf listeria outbreak.

Ten years after Emory University treated the first patients with the Ebola virus in the U.S., the team ... for Emory’s Serious Communicable Diseases Unit (SCDU). She showed the layers of ...

Texans are warned about an Ebola-type disease that has been seen in the United States. This spread can be detrimental to not ...

The resident had recently returned from West Africa. Iowa health officials say the risk of transmission is "incredibly low." Also in the news, locally acquired malaria, "walking pneumonia" in children ...

Lassa fever has similar symptoms to the Ebola virus, causing hemorrhagic fever ... so the risk of the disease spreading to fellow passengers is "extremely low," the CDC said.