Uganda is racing to launch a trial Ebola vaccine after a deadly outbreak in Kampala claimed a nurse’s life. With no approved ...

Test results on the sick people are pending, and a top WHO official said the outbreak response is proceeding rapidly.

At least 44 contacts of the victim in the current outbreak have been identified, including 30 health workers and patients.

Ugandan officials are preparing to deploy a trial vaccine as part of efforts to stem an outbreak of Ebola in the capital, ...

Uganda has confirmed its first Ebola outbreak in two years, reporting the death of a nurse in Kampala. Authorities are tracing the nurse’s contacts as they rush to curb the spread of the highly ...

A nurse in Uganda has died of Ebola in the first recorded fatality since the country’s last outbreak of the disease ended in ...

In a major step toward improving national response to acute epidemics, a new government body, the National Disease Control and Prevention Administration was inaugurated in May 2021. Since then ...

Ten years ago, I was in the hospital battling Ebola. My fever rarely relented. I felt so weak that getting up was a herculean task, attempted only a few times a day. Having treated patients with ...

A deadly outbreak of Marburg Virus is being reported in Tanzania's Kagera region and the World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a grave warning regarding the same. Often compared to Ebola ...

Hundreds of people have died from the virus in recent years, almost all in Africa Tanzania has dismissed a World Health Organisation (WHO) report of a suspected new outbreak of the Ebola-like ...

Eight people have died in Tanzania’s Kagera region following a suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus disease, according to the World Health Organization. The virus, related to Ebola and ...

The viral hemorrhagic fever has a fatality rate as high as 88%, and is from the same virus family as the one responsible for Ebola ... suffered its first Marburg outbreak in 2023, recording ...