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The World Health Organization says more than 900 suspected Ebola cases have now been identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo, including 101 confirmed infections in an outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo strain.

A growing Ebola outbreak centered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and neighboring Uganda has renewed global concern, with health officials confronting a rare virus strain that has no approved vaccine or targeted,

The World Health Organization has declared a public health emergency of international concern after a rapidly expanding Ebola outbreak linked to the Bundibugyo strain spread in the DRC and into Uganda.

The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak centered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo a public health emergency of international concern.

The World Health Organization has declared an Ebola outbreak first identified in the Democratic Republic of the Congo an international public health emergency, elevating concern around regional spread and global response

A cruise ship linked to a hantavirus outbreak reached Tenerife with more than 140 people aboard, prompting a tightly managed evacuation overseen by Spanish authorities and the WHO.

A deadly hantavirus outbreak linked to the MV Hondius has prompted international follow-up as health authorities track passengers and warn that more cases may still emerge.

A WHO briefing on the hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship highlighted serious concern among experts, but reporting tied to the briefing says they are discounting fears of a broader pandemic.

Laboratory testing has implicated the Andes virus in a hantavirus cluster linked to the cruise ship MV Hondius, sharpening concern because it is the only hantavirus strain known to spread between people.

A cluster of one confirmed and five suspected hantavirus infections on a cruise ship has left three passengers dead, according to the World Health Organization. The outbreak is drawing attention to a virus family better

Negotiators in Geneva have started an extra week of talks on the unresolved pathogen-sharing system at the heart of the pandemic treaty, with rich and developing countries still divided over access and benefits.

The World Health Organization has prequalified the first malaria treatment specifically formulated for newborns and infants, a move aimed at closing a major treatment gap in endemic regions.

The World Health Organization has called a CDC-funded $1.6 million trial in Guinea-Bissau unethical, saying it would withhold a proven life-saving vaccine from newborns in a country where 1 in 5 people carry hepatitis B.