Researchers from the UK, Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia are teaming up to better understand and diagnose acute fevers that kill millions of children in sub-Saharan Africa each year.

Sea otters are marine mammals well noted for their thick fur and playfulness. It inhabits the coasts of the northern Pacific ...

They live in herds of 50-500 animals in habitats ranging from wetlands to forests to open plains across sub-Saharan Africa. The most essential factor is proximity to water. In the wild, their lifespan ...

Map showing the environmental sampling locations focused on filling gaps in West Africa, West-Central Africa, and parts of ...

Through strategic investment and collaboration, African livestock systems can harness tools such as genomic technologies and ...

While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

HIV research programs have been halted, and many treatment clinics are still closed, despite a waiver for “life-saving” ...

Mosquitos are the bane of summer. Here's where they're the worst, how you can prevent them, and how to avoid the dreaded, ...

Following a lull in highly pathogenic avian influenza in west Africa, outbreaks have been recorded again in Nigeria and Niger.

South African lab technician Nozipho Mlotshwa was waiting for the test results for a potential HIV vaccine, which has eluded ...

A pair of leopards was recently seen prowling through a sprawling park in Thailand, video footage shows. The rare feline ...