The lab is one of two known places that store live samples of the virus that causes the disease. Scientists use them for research. But there is concern about accidental or intentional release.

The parasite carries potentially lethal pathogens in Asia as well as Australia and New Zealand. Now it's in North America. We ask tick specialists to weigh in.

'The Hot Zone,' a miniseries on the National Geographic Channel, was "inspired" by a 1989 Ebola crisis in the U.S. We asked virologist Thomas Geisbert, who was on the scene.

It's two comic books in one: A guide for boys (so they won't tease girls) and advice for girls on how to handle their period.

A new UNICEF project takes real-life stories of Syrian refugee kids and turns them into short — and really intense — animated videos.

A six-month course of pills for tuberculosis can ward off lifelong disability or death. But children with TB have to take the same drugs as adults, and getting kids to swallow those large, foul-tasting tablets is no easy task.

So for global health groups — and parents around the world ...

If you're traveling overseas for the holidays or in the new year, there are some things you don't want to bring back with you — like mumps, which has cropped up in Scotland; measles, which is circulating in Germany; and mosquito-borne diseases that are spreading in certain Latin American countries, ...

This week, the World Health Organization is sending a blunt message to Ukraine: declare a state of emergency.

The reason: two children in Southwestern Ukraine were diagnosed with polio in September.

Even two cases of polio is a concern, especially since these are the first cases of the virus in ...

What if something you wore could improve your health?

That was the idea behind UNICEF's Wearables for Good Challenge, which called out to the world of "makers, engineers, do-gooders, executives, computer scientists, inventors, innovators."

The contest drew 250 submissions from 46 countries across 6 continents. The entrants didn't have ...

"Cholera is a neglected disease," says Dr. Dominique Legros, a medical epidemiologist for the World Health Organization.

"I was just at an international meeting about cholera and there were 25 people," Legros says, "a very low number for such a virulent infectious disease with such a huge burden globally."

"It ...

The goat ate my soap!

That's what kids might tell their mom when she asks them to wash up before a meal. And they're not kidding. There's even a website from a sanitation group in Malawi with the title: "How to prevent goats from eating soap."

No soap is ...