Gabrielle Emanuel

Public health experts are raising concerns about why the U.S. government hasn't had a more public response to the hantavirus outbreak that started on a cruise ship.

Passengers who were potentially exposed to hantavirus on a cruise are back home and being monitored for symptoms, as scientists maintain that risk to the public is low.

The outbreak in Argentina in 2018-19 of hantavirus is one that scientists studied carefully, so many researchers are turning to it for information about the virus.

The number of Ebola cases has been growing – and growing by a lot — each day since the World Health Organization declared a public health emergency on Saturday.

This outbreak is being called "the perfect storm." How did it start, what are the characteristics of the strain that's causing it and how much of a threat is it to global health?

Hantavirus and Ebola are making headlines. But another deadly outbreak is unfolding that's barely registered on the global scene.

A medical professional from Children's National Hospital works at a coronavirus drive-through testing site on April 2, 2020, in Washington, D.C. The COVID-19 pandemic is shaping how many Americans are reacting to Ebola and hantavirus.

Doctors in the Democratic Republic of Congo say slowing the spread of Ebola requires the hard task of persuading people to change funeral practices, a major driver of Ebola cases in past outbreaks.

A measles outbreak in Bangladesh is suspected to have killed more than 500 and sickened up to 60,000. Bangladesh was getting measles under control until a new government upended vaccination efforts.

Bangladesh is scrambling to vaccinate more children amid a measles outbreak that has killed more than 500 people, most of them children.