Maeve Cullinan

Unsafe food kills more than 1.5 million people a year and causes cases of more than 200 diseases, research from the World Health Organization (WHO) has shown.

A nurse who contracted the virus during the ongoing outbreak has described his traumatic ordeal for the first time

Etienne Ezo knows exactly when he contracted Ebola and one of the most terrifying and painful ordeals a person can go through began.

The nurse, who works in an MSF-run paediatric ward, is one of at least 30 women arrested for allegedly violating strict dress codes

A month after the outbreak was declared, the key facts about the virus spreading in the Congo are becoming clearer

Twenty British people repatriated from the so-called “rat-virus cruise” were released from self-isolation on Monday.

Two to three new viruses capable of infecting humans have been discovered every year, a major new study from three universities has found.

The small Ugandan city of Masaka is known mostly for its coffee, grown on rich volcanic soils that produce beans which have a caramel-chocolate flavour.

The Ebola outbreak could halt a pioneering UK-backed kidney transplant programme that made the operation available in Uganda for the first time.

A microscopic parasite has caused a surge of explosive diarrhoea in the US this summer, with more than 7,000 suspected cases reported across dozens of states.