A person from Iowa who recently returned to the United States from West Africa died Monday from a rare viral hemorrhagic ...

The Ebola virus disease outbreak now ravaging parts of West Africa is the largest on record. In fact, West Africa has seen more cases of the disease in 2014 than have been seen in all other ...

An eastern Iowa resident died Monday from a viral disease similar to Ebola that was likely contracted during a recent trip to ...

Ebola virus is actually a group of viruses, known as orthoebolaviruses. These viruses first appeared in humans during two 1976 outbreaks in Africa, but they likely have existed for a very long time.

Health officials are investigating the case of an Iowa resident who died of Lassa fever after traveling recently to West Africa.

“We know that viruses evolve — we have seen it with Ebola, we have seen it with ... ‘Quick guide to the strains of monkeypox ...

and so they see the limited help they are sending to West Africa as charity rather than a vital self-interest. But they may be wrong. As Professor Peter Piot, who first identified the Ebola virus ...

A person from Iowa who recently returned to the United States from West Africa has died after contracting Lassa fever, a ...

Three infectious diseases experts with the University of Nebraska Medical Center's Global Center for Health Security have ...