A nurse in Spain has contracted Ebola, becoming the first person known to have caught the disease outside the outbreak zone in West Africa during the current epidemic.

A college student who has already lost a leg to a rare, flesh-eating bacterial infection is now expected to suffer the loss of her fingers too, her father said.

A World Health Organisation (WHO) investigation showed that the H5N1 virus mutated slightly in an Indonesian family cluster on Sumatra island.

The bird flu virus that infected a Vietnamese girl was resistant to the main drug that’s being stockpiled in case of a pandemic, a sign that it’s important to keep a second drug on hand as well, a researcher said tonight.

The pope’s breathing problems are not a routine complication of the flu but are worsened by his Parkinson’s disease, several doctors said.