The discovery of so many animals feeding on the bats may be a ‘Rosetta Stone’ for understanding how diseases spread between animals ...

Nipah virus was first identified in 1998 during an outbreak among pig farmers in Malaysia. Later, pteropus bat populations have been identified as its primary reservoir. How do factors like ecological ...

For years, the worst outcomes of measles were all but unknown in the U.S. Now they look inevitable.

The Global Health and Infectious Diseases Research Group (GHID-KCCR) at the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR) has hosted researchers from Cameroon, Guinea, and ...

Press Release - As outbreaks of Filovirus Disease (FVD) continue to regularly affect countries across Africa and in efforts to increase preparedness capacities, the World Health Organization (WHO) ...

A MUTANT flu strain that has only been spotted in animals, is now “spreading undetected” humans, leading scientists have warned. The strain, dubbed “influenza D”, is mainly ...

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.

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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 ...