In other words, a single patient infected with a novel pathogen is a high-stakes, possibly disastrous event in any hospital.

The UK Health Security Agency has published a list of the 24 pathogen families that could pose the greatest risk to public ...

Bacterial pathogen families were also assessed for ... She added that some diseases on the list, like Ebola, may not be present in the UK but have an impact globally. “Some of these are also ...

For more than a decade, I have worked as a physician and public-health expert responding to infectious diseases around the ...

"All these drugs and vaccines that were developed against Ebola and a lot of these exotic viruses and pathogens—90 percent of the money comes from the US government," he said, adding ...

And in December, the agency admitted to samples of Ebola virus being transferred from a high-security lab to one ill equipped to handle the pathogen, potentially exposing a lab technician to the virus ...

The list of 24 infectious diseases has been created to help scientists make new tests, vaccines and medication in preparation ...