Infectious diseases

Late detection in Nigeria raises alarm as Ebola spreads across Africa

The epidemic, which was first detected 3,000km away in the Democratic Republic of Congo in May, is the second largest on record.

Kenya confirms new Ebola case, total at nine, health ministry says

A Kenyan Ministry of Health official checking the temperature of a traveller at the border with Uganda on Oct 12.

US health agency confirms third measles-related death for 2026

There were 4,410 confirmed cases of measles across the country as of Oct 15.

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Protesters break up the fountain at the base of the Statue de La Republique to get stones as clashes erupted at Place de la Republique in Paris, on Oct 18.

S’pore steps up surveillance of 3 potentially deadly infectious diseases

These diseases are Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, Lassa fever and Marburg virus disease.

Kenya confirms eighth Ebola case as regional outbreak spreads

A medical worker controls the sanitisation point for travellers entering the Kenya immigration services from Uganda at a border post in Busia, Kenya, on Oct 8.

A reporter who saw Covid-19 coming has died

Helen Branswell’s death, at a hospital, was from complications of a recurrence of breast cancer.

Inside the plague research labs at the heart of a Russian mystery

A satellite image of the Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia and the Far East in Irkutsk, Russia, on May 8, 2025.

Sengkang GRC MP Jamus Lim in hospital with pneumonia

Workers’ Party MP Jamus Lim was seen sniffling in Parliament last week.

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