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President Joseph Nyuma Boakai will this weekend lead the country in yet another powerful national healing event, this time honoring the thousands of Liberians who lost their lives during the civil war ...

The World Health Organization warned on Friday that cholera cases in Sudan are set to rise and could spread to neighbouring countries, including Chad, which hosts hundreds of thousands of refugees ...

On Jan. 29, 2025, the Ministry of Health of Uganda officially declared an Ebola outbreak in Kampala, with 10 confirmed cases reported as of March. This marks the eighth Ebola outbreak in Uganda ...

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Now, just two years later, on January 30, 2025, Uganda announced its latest Sudan Ebola outbreak. The Ministry of Health identified a 32-year-old male nurse who had died as the first documented case.

An Ebola outbreak has been reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). At least a dozen cases of the hemorrhagic fever have been reported in the Bolamba health zone, which is located ...

Again, there’s no Ebola outbreak at Burning Man. It was started as a hoax meme on X and has spread quickly across various social media sites.

This outbreak, which involved the Ebola Sudan strain of the virus, began in September and killed 56 people, including seven health care workers, and caused 142 confirmed infections.

W hen I learned that an outbreak of Ebola was declared in Uganda last fall, I had a flashback to 2014 when I was working at Merck and an outbreak of Ebola disease caused by a different species of ...

Ebola has flared up intermittently in Africa for more than 40 years, most notably during an outbreak between 2013 and 2016 that infected 28,000 people and took more than 11,000 lives.

The 2014–16 Ebola epidemic — the largest since Ebola was discovered in 1976 — resulted in more than 28,000 cases and 11,000 deaths, mostly in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.