In addition to the suspension of school visitations, the taskforce has mandated that all public places—including worship ...

In 2014 health worker Donnell Tholley was so struck by the plight of one his patients in an Ebola clinic in Sierra Leone that he agreed to adopt her baby boy after she died. The child was close to ...

Organizations funded by the United States helped keep dangerous pathogens in check around the world. Now many safeguards are ...

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Symptoms in children are similar to those in adults, but infant infection can result in ‘swollen baby syndrome’ with oedema, ...

According to Dr Bahizi, the initial four suspected cases originated from Ntoroko District, while the two new cases involve ...

Dr. Herbert Luswata, president of the Uganda Medical Association, said that the Ebola response had been badly hampered by the ...

Africa’s top public health agency says that Uganda’s Ebola caseload increased to 14 in the last week with a new cluster ...

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Uganda announced two new cases of Ebola in the capital, Kampala, on Thursday, just two weeks after discharging all patients who had fully recovered following isolation and treatment.

Dr. Bahizi Archbald Sebahire Newton, the FRRH acting director, says the suspects have been sent to the isolation Unit at the hospital. He also said that samples from the suspected cases had been sent ...

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