With the outbreak of the Zika Virus in much of the southern part of the Western Hemisphere, Americans are wondering what the chance is of an outbreak in the US. RT’s Marina Portnaya visits a micro-biology lab at Miami-Dade College, where Dr. Joe Okungbowa highlights the concern in in South Florida,

The first known incidents of the Ebola virus were in 1976. There were two simultaneous outbreaks in Nzara in Sudan and Yambuku in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo). The name of the Ebola river near Yambuku was given to the new epidemic.

Outbreaks have mainly occured in remote villages ...

An info-graphic dissecting the nature and ramifications of Stuxnet, the first weapon made entirely out of code. This was produced for Australian TV program Hungry Beast on Australia's ABC1.

Three young Haemophiliac brothers with the AIDS virus are shunned by their town, school and even their church in Arcadia in the USA. The brothers contracted the virus after receiving contaminated blood products.

Margaret Heckler was President Reagan's secretary of health and human services from March 1983 to December 1985. Here she says AIDS was her number one priority, but that she had to balance her department's response against the Reagan administration's fiscal priorities. Heckler maintains that preexis...

While AIDS came to prominence in the 1980s, a new study published Friday says it was actually around decades before, in the 1920s.
In what an international team of scientists are calling a "perfect storm" for spreading the virus, they think its proliferation started in the city of Kinshasa, the cap...

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Is fear When it comes to fear you can either forget everything and run I said I (I) Or you can face everything and rise I believe (I believe)
And let me tell you what I believe I believe that (I believe that) I believe we gonna fac...

BBC's 60 seconds look at why Ebola is so deadly. The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for "drastic action" to contain an Ebola outbreak in West Africa that has killed nearly 500 people. It is the world's largest outbreak in terms of cases, deaths and geographical spread.

'The Power of Letters.' insightful video that gives a new perspective! Concept and Screenplay: Mendel Jacobson Director: GI Orman Animator: Jake Sojcher

ESPN documentary on Magic Johnson announcing to the world that he has the HIV virus on November 7, 1991.