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The United States was the site of the first monkeypox outbreak outside Africa, in 2003.

Tom Price is in the West African country to survey its post-Ebola recovery and offer U.S. support.

“I guess it just feels like you have bugs underneath your skin, crawling around in these little tunnels.”

Some of the best medicine is being practiced by doctors whose patients aren’t human.

Since April, three Americans have died of plague, according to the CDC.

Mice bred with the gene are immune to mad cow disease.

99% of polio has been eliminated, but now war and Ebola are threatening to derail the ambitious programme

Workers are protesting after not receiving their hazard pay for dangerous working conditions

Incinerated items belonging to Thomas Duncan may remain in Texas because of fear of spreading the disease.

A Liberian surgeon who survived Ebola plans to go back to work to help others with the disease

The deadly virus may have arrived in America's most crowded, populous city with a man who recently visited west Africa

How blood transfusions may have saved seven Ebola patients 20 years ago

The decades-long race to create a malaria vaccine may be on the edge of a breakthrough

Sheik Umar Khan, 39, has treated more than 100 victims

Experts say inadequate state oversight and a failure to learn from past mistakes have all hindered Saudi Arabia's battle against the SARS-like virus

Some 450,000 people developed multidrug-resistant tuberculosis last year, a variant that can’t be cured by common drugs.