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40 Americans among the passengers of a cruise ship quarantined in a Japanese port have tested positive for coronavirus.

The Zika virus ravages the testes of male mice, sharply reducing sperm counts and fertility, according to a study which raises fresh questions over the infection's threat to people.

A large-scale human trial of two potential ebola vaccines got under way in Liberia’s capital yesterday, part of a global effort to prevent a repeat of the epidemic that has now claimed nearly 9,000 lives in West Africa.

An experimental ebola vaccine has triggered promising immune responses from 20 healthy volunteers taking part in a preliminary trial.

A US nurse who was quarantined after working in West Africa with Ebola patients is being released, officials said.

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

Africans battling to contain the spread of ebola will have to wait for months until a potentially life-saving experimental drug used on two Americans infected with the dreaded disease would be manufactured, officials said.

A baby born with the virus that causes Aids appears to have been cured, scientists have announced.

An unusual blood transplant appears to have cured an American man living in Berlin of infection with the Aids virus.

A new gel can block the Aids virus, halving a woman’s chances of getting HIV from an infected partner, US scientists say.

PROVOCATIVE new research shows that treating people with the AIDS virus can provide a powerful bonus: it cuts the risk that they will infect others.

AN experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the Aids virus for the first time, a breakthrough in the fight against the deadly illness.

An experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the Aids virus for the first time, a breakthrough in the fight against the deadly illness.

Researchers said for the first time an experimental vaccine has cut the risk of infection with the deadly Aids virus.

South Africa is launching clinical trials of the first AIDS vaccines created by a developing country, a feat by scientists who forged ahead even when some of their political leaders shocked the world with unscientific pronouncements about the disease.

Scientists have identified a lethal new virus in Africa that causes bleeding like the dreaded Ebola.

AN AMERICAN man who suffered from Aids appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally used to fight leukaemia, his doctors said.

A 16-year-old Indonesian boy has died from bird flu, according to local test results that, if confirmed, would bring Indonesia’s death toll to 43 and make it the world’s hardest-hit country.

The US government is getting ready to test a bird flu vaccine and stockpiling both vaccine and antiviral drugs as the threat grows that a deadly strain of avian influenza will begin spreading from Asia.

GlaxoSmithKline PLC's experimental genital herpes vaccine will begin new clinical trials on female subjects, GSK and the National Institutes of Health said.

Fears were today mounting that the danger to the public from America’s anthrax outbreak was greater than had initially been believed.