Food and Drug Administration officials hit out at Purell's maker GOJO with a warning letter earlier this month, demanding that the company take down false claims it prevents flu.
EXCLUSIVE: Sir Jeremy Farrar, a renowned specialist in infectious disease epidemics, said the virus in China isn't new but has likely adapted to infect humans.
The Wuhan National Laboratory opened in January 2018, with the highest safety rating and plans to study SARS and Ebola. A Nature article warned that some were concerned over its safety.
PETER FRANKOPAN: The Wuhan outbreak may be just another tremor. But few should have any doubts. The problem about nightmares is that they are reflections of realities.
On Thursday, the US Food and Drug Administration approved Ervebo, the first vaccine against Ebola to get green lit by American officials. It comes as a Congo outbreak rages on and has killed 4 in Uganda.
On the heels of the WHO's declaration that Ebola is an 'international public health emergency of international concern,' Ebola screeners have been hired to test the blood of travelers at Dulles International Airport in DC.
The so-called Merck vaccine was approved his afternoon and is likely to get a full marketing licence from the European Commission within a few weeks.
Several countries that have never experienced the problem, including Nigeria which is home to 191 million people, are particularly at risk - both now and in the years ahead.
The patient was rushed to Skane University Hospital in Lund on Monday after suffering symptoms linked to the killer virus. Doctors say they can't rule out Ebola until test results come back.
The explosion, at the Vector laboratory in Siberia, left a worker with second and third degree burns. The lab is one of two places in the world which houses the smallpox disease.
Dr Catherine Houlihan, from Aberdeen, returned home to the UK from the African nation in June after spending a month at the heart of the epidemic in the North Kivu province.
Scientists at Fort Detrick, Maryland, study Ebola, the plague (caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis) and rabbit fever (caused by the bacterium tularemia).
The World Health Organisation said it was 'time for the world to take notice' as the UN agency invoked its emergency provisions to contain the growing outbreak in DR Congo.
The MP said the outbreak is 'very dangerous' after a two-day visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Health officials have rejected proposals to declare a global emergency three times.
South Sudan is the 'most vulnerable' of the countries neighbouring the Democratic Republic of the Congo, experts said, where 1,522 people have died of Ebola since the outbreak began in August.
Pauline Cafferkey, 43 (pictured) from Glasgow, who first contracted the killer bug in 2014, welcomed the 'two amazing boys' at 10am on Tuesday.
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Having owned every issue of Vogue published since September 1977, as well as having devoured numerous books on the subject, I had thought I was an expert.
Here she reflects on the highs, lows - and 'I can't believe she said that!' moments - of being Britain's most groundbreaking confessional columnist for 20 years
The things some people do for a story… Liz recounts her greatest hits (and misses)
LIZ JONES: In the post-MeToo age, should we really be obsessing about what the wives of the world's leaders attending the G7 summit in Biarritz are wearing?
LIZ JONES: Was there a winner? Who scored the most aces? Held all the power in their first official singles clash for a year? Forget tennis - I'm talking about the two duchesses, in Wimbledon's Royal Box.
Dior at the V&A has drawn crowds and accolades, but the Mary Quant retrospective in the gallery next door is the first to make me shed tears.
I’m an insane Stanley Kubrick fan. Barry Lyndon, The Shining, 2001: A Space Odyssey are among my favourite films.
'During a visit to One25, a charity which helps female sex workers in Bristol, Meghan did something very strange indeed. On each banana, she carefully inked a self-help message,' writes Jones.
I arrive at the V&A for the Dior exhibition with news ringing in my ears that the Duchesses of Cambridge and Sussex employ staff to regulate the abuse aimed at them on social media.
After 13 weeks, 30 million sequins, 52 leotards, 97 jazz hands, 52 barbs from Bruno, 47 ‘Darlings’ from Craig, and one extra consonant in the name of contestant Sean(n) Walsh we finally had the finalists.
During a bush tucker trial on Wednesday night, something snapped, and the synthetic wool was pulled from my eyes. Holly and Dec doubled up and laughed as animals’ private parts were eaten.
LIZ JONES: At the Elysee Palace in Paris on Saturday, as part of Donald Trump’s visit to France to commemorate the Armistice, Melania Trump and Brigitte Macron went into battle.
Whatever the truth about allegations of sexual harassment and racism – both of which Sir Philip Green vehemently denies – there was never any shadow of a doubt he was a bully, says LIZ JONES.
I’m in a sea of grey hair. Women dressed up, compliant husbands in tow. A rowdy gaggle from the WI. At The Lowry in Salford there’s not an empty seat in the house.