Despite the known skepticism of its leader Robert F Kennedy Jr, the Department of Health and Human Services quietly announced last month two new vaccines aimed at addressing “material threats to ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services is weighing whether to fund new Marburg and Sudan Ebola virus vaccines even as Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. overhauls the US immunization landscape, ...

More than 150 representatives and observers from organizations were on the tarmac at Dulles International Airport on June 25 ...

The first Portable Biocontainment Unit has been in the works for years by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response June 25 announced it conducted an exercise transporting simulated patients with high-consequence infectious diseases in a new portable ...

Uganda has had multiple Ebola outbreaks, including one in 2000 that killed hundreds. The 2014-16 Ebola outbreak in West Africa killed more than 11,000 people, the disease’s largest death toll.

After cases of Ebola begin showing up in the United States in 2014, the US government created a tiered system of hospitals to deal with the virus and other serious infectious diseases. Despite the ...

FMH is one of only five “assessment hospitals” in Maryland, a criterion that describes centers equipped to monitor and hold Ebola patients for up to 96 hours before they’re moved to a higher ...

Around the hospital “obituary” posters of doctors who died in 2014 are pasted on the walls. They are faded and peeling now, but I recognise some of the names from the Ebola Doctors Memorial ...

In West Africa, by contrast, Ebola hunkered down in major cities, where it could flit from one neighborhood to the next and fell whole hospitals. It is easy to see how Ebola took root at Redemption.

The Ebola virus can live on surfaces in hospitals for nearly two weeks, a new study suggests. Researchers tested how long the Ebola virus could survive on plastic, stainless steel and Tyvek, a ...

Hospitals should have teams consisting of a physician and nurse, buddy and observer, and as our recent state-required mock drill for Ebola virus management preparedness revealed, an incident ...