Numerous experimental vaccines that aim to provide multi-season protection are in human studies.

A report also concludes that an investment of $2 per person per year could forestall that fate.

Tens of thousands of hogs are being slaughtered to stop its spread.

Dozens of cases of acute flaccid myelitis have occurred this year, and while it resembles polio, health officials have ruled out poliovirus.

As cases ramp up in Democratic Republic of Congo, the government has banned housing Ebola victims and promises police escorts for health workers at burials.

An accomplished infectious disease scientist, Meyers spent the 1960s treating and studying the condition in central Africa.

Some patients could suppress the virus without antiretroviral therapy for months after the drug infusions.

No females were produced after eight generations, causing the population to collapse.

Climate change may open up new habitats suitable for the virus’s spread.