Ebola

A team of researchers at Hebei Medical University engineered virus to contain parts of Ebola in a lab that killed a group of hamsters in just three days.

Chimpanzees in Uganda have been eating virus-filled bat dung ever since their preferred food source was destroyed by tobacco farmers. Scientists fear this could be how the next major pandemic starts.

Human-to-animal transmission has received 'little attention', researchers from UCL said. But 'humans are as much a source as a sink' for viral health crises.

Human-to-animal transmission has received 'little attention', researchers from UCL said. But 'humans are as much a source as a sink' for viral health crises.

The probe is being conducted by the 15-member Homeland Security committee. The inquiry will also look into the threats posed by high-security research labs.

Official data revealed more than 600 releases of 'controlled' pathogens - which may include anthrax, tuberculosis and yellow fever - were recorded in the US over the eight years to 2022, equivalent to 70 to 100 releases every year.

Chinese scientist Dr Xiangguo Qiu (pictured), who was fired from a Canadian lab for sending viruses to China, is thought to have worked with a key virologist at a Wuhan lab.

Chinese scientist Dr Xiangguo Qiu (pictured), who was fired from a Canadian lab for sending viruses to China, is thought to have worked with a key virologist at a Wuhan lab.

A Chinese couple working at Canada's highest biosecurity lab were secretly sending information to Beijing, a bombshell investigation has found.

A Chinese couple working at Canada's highest biosecurity lab were secretly sending information to Beijing, a bombshell investigation has found.

The U.S. government is spending $1million of American taxpayer money to fund gain-of-function experiments on dangerous bird flu viruses in collaboration with Chinese scientists.

The US government is spending $1million of American taxpayer money to fund dangerous experiments with bird flu viruses in collaboration with Chinese scientists.

A federal agency dog - Buddy - with a nose for the strange unearthed four mummified monkeys (pictured) one traveller was trying to smuggle into the United States for his consumption.

Photos and videos obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com show US researchers experimenting on animals (pictured) at a controversial lab in Montana where risky virus research is carried out.

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the agency's director Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, warned a new pathogen - dubbed Disease X - was already on the way.

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the agency's director Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, warned a new pathogen - dubbed Disease X - was already on the way.

A panel led by World Health Organization chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Gehreyesus will debate efforts needed to prepare healthcare systems at a World Economic Forum session in Switzerland.

A panel led by World Health Organization chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Gehreyesus will debate efforts needed to prepare healthcare systems at a World Economic Forum session in Switzerland.

British zoologist Dr Peter Daszak, a central and controversial figure in the debate about Covid's origins, has revealed he's found a close relative of the virus living in bats found in Thai caves.

British zoologist Dr Peter Daszak, a central and controversial figure in the debate about Covid's origins, has revealed he's found a close relative of the virus living in bats found in Thai caves.

EcoHealth Alliance, the controversial organization at the center of the Covid-19 pandemic, has continued to receive taxpayer money to study contagious animal-borne viruses in Asia and Africa.

President Biden has long denied the lab leak theory, but speaking at a conference this week, his former Covid advisor suggested the pandemic could have been a result of experiments gone wrong

Warnings from US researchers about genetically engineered viruses at China 's bat lab were raised years before the Covid-19 pandemic, but were ignored or censored.

DailyMail.com spoke to three virus experts who agreed a respiratory virus - spread via droplets from coughs and sneezes - was most likely to trigger the next fast spreading disease that causes a global shutdown.

A scathing report out of Congress sheds light on new details about a convicted criminal from China who ran an unlicensed lab in California stockpiling dangerous pathogens.

A new taxpayer-funded multimillion dollar lab is being built in Colorado that will import bats from around the world and experiment on dangerous diseases, DailyMail.com can reveal.

Experts from US biotech company Ginkgo Bioworks have called for 'urgent action' to address the risk to global public health.

French health authorities have confirmed they have ticks carrying Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, a virus that kills up to 40 per cent of people it infects, in the country for the first time.

EXCL: Chinese scientists have uncovered eight new viruses living in rodents on a tropical island off the country's cost and have called for experiments on how ill they might make people to be conducted.

EXCL: MailOnline has learned of six lab incidents where genetically modified organisms (GMO) have escaped containment in the past five years.

A social media influencer offered a glimpse inside the mud-caked grounds, downplaying the crisis that saw President Biden briefed on the situation as 75,00 people were trapped.

Festival goers were hit with torrential rains over the weekend in a 'post-apocalyptic style' event. Adding to the panic, people on social media claimed there had been an Ebola outbreak.

A boom in labs handling the deadliest pathogens on Earth in Asia and a rise of labs that could be doing risky experiments in urban centers are just two trends in disease research worrying top scientists.

In an editorial published today, they claimed America is 'fundamentally unprepared', despite the Covid pandemic being so fresh in people's minds.

Marburg, one of the deadliest pathogens ever discovered, has already killed ten in Equatorial Guinea. Two suspected cases have since been spotted in neighbouring Cameroon.

Panic is setting in about Marburg virus, which masquerades as a cold for up to three weeks before causing an explosion of horrifying symptoms, including organ failure and bleeding from organs.

An extremely deadly disease is feared to be spreading in Africa after Cameroon said it had detected two suspected cases of Marburg virus.

The World Health Organization (WHO) convened an urgent meeting Tuesday amid an outbreak of one of the deadliest diseases known to man in Africa.

It marks the first time the pathogen has ever been seen in Equatorial Guinea, which is now scrambling to contain the outbreak. Hundreds of people are suspected to be infected with the virus.

The UK Health Security Agency updated its list of deadly disease this week, which monitors the pathogenic threats that could theoretically sweep the world if given the opportunity.

The story of how this vaccine was designed, developed and licensed at breathtaking speed - in under a year - by the labs of Oxford University has become scientific legend.

Researchers from Valencia created a cranberry-infused antimicrobial lipstick which can help ward off viruses including surrogates of Covid, flu and Ebola.

British and American researchers have scored each country with a high security pathogen lab and found several, including China, ranked poorly for rules on manipulating viruses like Covid.

Britain was hit by an Ebola scare last night after part of a Colchester Hospital, in Essex hospital was 'locked down' following a possible case of the fever virus.

Since the outbreak was detected in the central district of Mubende on September 19, the disease has spread across the east African nation, including the capital Kampala.

EXCLUSIVE: Virologist Dr Jonathan Latham - a former researcher at the University of Wisconsin - and journalist Sam Husseini say there are a number of inconsistencies in the official timeline.

The Princess Royal, who arrived in the east African country on Tuesday, has met dozens of people, including Ebola hotspot and capital city Kampala.

Dr Joel Murphy, who heads up the US response to Ebola and similar diseases, said it was unlikely that Ebola would escape Uganda. It has only reached the US once before in 2014.

Uganda President Yoweri Museveni on Saturday announced he was bringing in the strict rules in Mubende and Kassanda districts, which are worst affected by the killer virus, for 21 days.

President Yoweri Museveni said he would impose an overnight curfew in an effort to stem the spread of the deadly virus.

British medics should be vigilant for potential Ebola cases health officials have said as concerns Uganda's outbreak of the virus grow as US authorities have impose airport screening for travellers.

Uganda is grappling with a fresh outbreak of the Ebola virus, for which there is no approved vaccine.

Uganda's Ebola death toll has now hit 10 following the death of a 58-year-old female health care worker. Officials are scrambling to contain the virus which kills up to half of people infected.

Researchers from Georgetown University claim that rising temperatures are forcing animals to relocate to more populated areas, increasing the risk of a viral jump to humans.

Dental nurse Caroline Heath readily admits she'd never have considered taking part in a trial for a vaccine against the deadly Ebola virus if she hadn't happened to be at a talk about coronavirus.

The person drank Miracle Mineral Solution, which has been promoted as a cure for Covid in recent years, and other ailments including cancer, HIV, Ebola and autism going back a decade.

Jen Psaki condemned Kremlin accusations that the US was building a bioweapons lab in Ukraine and pointed out that it was Putin who had a history of using such methods to take out his enemies.

Speaking at a summit in London, Professor Sir Chris Whitty said there had been many 'near misses' in the past decade, pointing to Ebola and Zika outbreaks.

The State Centre for Research on Virology and Biotechnology in Novosibirsk Oblast, Siberia, has been a key player in Russia's bioweapon scheme for decades.

Researchers from the U.S. Army found that, in monkeys and probably in humans, Ebola can 'hide' in a person's brain and re-infect them years later. It is a breakthrough discovery in virus prevention

Queensland's new Chief Health Officer, Dr John Gerrard, has revealed his long standing history with infectious diseases from his brother's death in 1968 from influenza to his work with ebola in Africa.

The jab - currently known as ChAdOx1 biEBOV - uses the same technology as the breakthrough coronavirus shot. It has been designed to tackle the Zaire and Sudan strains of Ebola.

Human cells contain a gene - called CHMP3 - which allows viruses to bud off and infect other cells in the body. But scientists have found a way to block this route of infection.

The abuse was carried out by Congolese and international workers between 2018 and 2020, including on a 13-year-old girl.

World Health Organization chief Tedros Ghebreyesus apologised after a commission found that 83 aid workers, including 21 employed by the WHO, sexually abused women and girls in the DRC.

Dr Rochelle Walensky said that the data behind Tuesday's decision to recommend once again the wearing of masks indoors will be published on Friday.

Researchers have developed a mask that can test for COVID-19 and give results within 90 minutes of activation. The team is also looking into how to deploy the technology into clothing.

Twenty-seven people who returned from Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo are being monitored. Health officials say the risk any of them have contracted the virus is low.

The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) at the secretive Porton Down, near Salisbury, has been helping in the fight against the disease ever since the pandemic began.

The CDC said on Friday that beginning next week, travelers from DRC and Guinea will be funneled to six U.S. airports.

Five people have now died of Ebola in Guinea, with the first victim being a 51-year-old nurse, who died in January. Two of the nurse's brothers who attended her funeral in February have since died.

Three people have died of Ebola, and another five have tested positive for the virus in southeastern Guinea after attending a burial. It is the first possible resurgence in the country since 2013-2016 outbreak.

Infectious disease has always been with us and arguably always will be. Charles Kenny's book is a lively survey of our millennia-long struggle to defeat it.

Health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo confirmed another Ebola outbreak in the country's east on Sunday after a woman died in Butembo town of North Kivu province last week.

UK researchers say global greenhouse gas emissions over the last century have driven growth of forest habitat favoured by bats - where the SARS-CoV-2 virus is thought to have originated.

Nathalie MacDermott, 38, originally from Cardiff but now based in south London, has Long Covid and is only able to walk about 200 metres without some form of assistance.

Scientists running the REMAP-CAP trial, led by Imperial College London, have stopped enrolling Covid ICU patients after finding 'no evidence' convalescent plasma boosted survival rates.

Professor Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tamfum, who helped discover the Ebola virus in 1976, said humanity faces an unknown number of new viruses.

Unit 68240 of Russia's FSB spy agency is believed to be researching both Ebola and the even-more deadly Marburg virus. The diseases lead to organ failure and severe internal bleeding.