Virus

Bats carry a disease that has no known cure, and can cause death within one to two weeks after symptoms begin.

The ongoing incident at a Siberian research institute has parallels in a new book by a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has urged Russia to provide more details about the death of a laboratory worker at a research institute.

For the first time, vaccine for the mosquito-carried disease can be obtained from GPs.

Russian authorities have quarantined a hospital and are monitoring contacts of an employee at a plague research laboratory who died from pneumonia.

Russian authorities are responding to the release of a suspected deadly infection in which a researcher was killed.

It marks the first reported case in France and the first to test positive outside of Africa amid the second largest Ebola outbreak on record in DRC.

Australia is facing its worst diphtheria outbreak in recorded history and Ebola is rapidly spreading overseas.

The goal is to slash mosquito numbers and curb the spread of disease.

A customs spokesperson said the passenger "should not have boarded" at all.