fever

Thirteen people with the illness have tested negative for Ebola and Marburg. The Tanzanian government continues to investigate the source.

So far, more than 50 people have died of a febrile illness, though the cause isn’t clear.

Data from a crowdsourcing smartphone app is helping to track the spread of the disease in real time and reveals the symptom as the number one indicator of infection.

University of Michigan’s Ada Hagan separates fact from fiction, such as whether you should starve a fever or if eating chocolate really causes acne.

Constructing transcriptional profiles from the blood of children with fevers can help determine whether the cause is viral or bacterial.