"Toughness is the thing that they most fear."

President Donald Trump said Barack Obama's health care law covers "very few people" as he minimised the impact of replacing it.

A first case of a patient with a bacterium that is resistant to the antibiotic colistin — known as the drug of last resort — has been detected in the US.

Passengers aboard a cruise ship that set sail from Southampton may have norovirus, US authorities say.

US health officials have said there is now enough evidence to say the Zika virus can cause unusually small heads and brain damage in babies.

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has said women in countries hit by the Zika virus should have access to birth control methods, dropping laws against abortion in some cases.

A VEGETARIAN friend has mastered the phrase “Is it meat?” in several languages in an attempt to navigate his way through holiday menus.

US officials are investigating after the Pentagon mistakenly shipped live anthrax spores to government and commercial laboratories in as many as nine states, as well as one overseas.

Hundreds of people marched across the Brooklyn Bridge demanding stricter gun laws and offering a litany of violent stories to show why they are needed.

A laboratory technician at the US public health watchdog is being monitored for possible accidental exposure to the Ebola virus that came during an experiment.

A plague outbreak has killed 40 people on the island nation of Madagascar, with 119 people diagnosed with the bacterial disease since August.

Health workers on the front line of the ebola crisis say the need for urgent help isn’t letting up, as the US Congress began considering President Barack Obama’s $6.2bn (€4.9bn) emergency aid request to fight the disease.

Maine health officials obtained a 24-hour court order restricting Kaci Hickox’s movement after the nurse repeatedly defied the state’s quarantine for medical workers who have treated ebola patients.

A judge has rejected a bid by health officials in Maine to restrict the movement of nurse Kaci Hickox, who defied a quarantine for medical workers who have treated Ebola patients.

All but daring Maine health authorities to go to court to have her confined, nurse Kaci Hickox went out on a bike ride in defiance of the state’s voluntary quarantine for medical workers who have treated ebola patients.

A US nurse who is in isolation after treating Ebola patients in west Africa says she is prepared to go to court if the state tries to quarantine her.

Residents have been urged to remain calm after a New York doctor, who had recently travelled to Guinea, tested positive for Ebola.

A doctor who returned to New York after treating Ebola patients in west Africa has tested positive for the virus - the first confirmed case in the city and America's fourth.

President Barack Obama vowed his administration would respond in a “much more aggressive way” to cases of Ebola in the United States.

US health officials are alerting airline passengers who were on the same flight as a Texas nurse who was diagnosed with Ebola the following day.

A second US health care worker has tested positive for Ebola, Texas officials have revealed.

A Liberian Ebola patient was left in an open area of a Dallas hospital for hours, the largest US nurses’ union has said.

A healthcare worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who provided care for an Ebola patient has tested positive for Ebola in a preliminary test.

US customs and health officials have begun taking the temperatures of passengers arriving at New York’s Kennedy International Airport from three West African countries in a stepped-up screening effort meant to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus.

Health officials in Australia have confirmed a 57-year-old woman is being tested for Ebola after returning to the country from Sierra Leone.

A US man who contracted Ebola while working as a freelance cameraman in Liberia has been flown back to his home country for treatment.

The condition of the man who brought the deadly Ebola disease to the US is now critical, hospital officials have said.

About 80 people are now being monitored for symptoms of Ebola in Texas, health officials said, after a man was diagnosed with the disease in Dallas.

The director of the US Secret Service has resigned in the face of revelations of security breaches and an erosion of confidence over the safety of president Barack Obama and his family.

The airline passenger who brought Ebola into the US initially went to a Dallas emergency room last week but was sent home, despite telling a nurse that he had been in disease-ravaged West Africa, the hospital said.

A patient at a Dallas hospital has tested positive for Ebola, the first case of the disease to be diagnosed in the United States.

The spread of ebola seems to have stabilised in Guinea, one of three West African states worst-hit by the disease, but a lack of beds and resistance in affected communities means its advance continues elsewhere, the World Health Organisation said.

US health officials laid out worst-case and best-case scenarios for the ebola epidemic in West Africa, warning that the number of infected people could explode to at least 1.4m by mid-January — or peak well below that, if efforts to control the outbreak are ramped up.

The hospital in Liberia where three American aid workers contracted Ebola has been overwhelmed by a surge in patients, a missionary couple have said.

Ebola represents a threat to all humanity and an outbreak of the virus in five West African countries will likely spread to more, American officials warned.

Two fifths of people in the US will develop Type 2 diabetes during their lifetime, a major study suggests

The World Health Organisation urged nations worldwide to help stop the spread of Ebola as it declared the outbreak in West Africa to be an international public health emergency.

The healthcare system in Liberia is collapsing, hospitals closing down and medical workers fleeing from the ebola epidemic Liberia’s foreign minister said on Thursday.

The World Health Organisation has declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to be an international public health emergency that requires an extraordinary response to stop its spread.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to be an international public health emergency that requires an extraordinary response to stop its spread.

A man who recently visited West Africa and then was taken to hospital in New York City with a high fever and gastrointestinal symptoms does not have the Ebola virus.

The second American aid worker recently diagnosed with Ebola in west Africa was en route to Atlanta today after a customs and refuelling stop in Maine.

US government workers cleaning out an old storage room at a research centre near Washington have made a startling discovery — decades-old vials of smallpox packed away and forgotten in a cardboard box.