The last time Americans faced the possible spread of Ebola to U.S. territory, in 2014, Donald Trump irresponsibly stoked ...

Six species of the virus are known to cause disease in humans -- Zaire, Sudan, Bundibugyo, Reston, Tai Forest and Bombali.

The risks for transmission are high, with over 490,000 Kenyans visiting Uganda, while more than 201,620 Ugandans traveled to Kenya in 2023.

These diseases had once been extraordinary rarities. When HIV hit, they were everywhere. I remember how I blew up gloves into balloons to distract the kids, so small and polite, their hair neatly ...

A Ugandan health official says a nurse in the capital, Kampala, has died of Ebola, in the first recorded fatality since the ...

Workers at Firestone's rubber farm in Liberia say that extracting natural rubber comes with a high human cost.

A Ugandan nurse died of 'unexplained bleeding from multiple sources' linked to Ebola , the first recorded death since the ...

The fourteen years of civil conflict in Liberia devastated nearly every sector of the economy and its institutions, with the ...

Trump is pulling the U.S. back from international organizations. But on health care especially, Americans have a lot to lose ...

In a twist of political irony, Liberia’s President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, who once supported former U.S. President Donald Trump ...

Liberian armed forces carry a casket with the remains of former rebel leader and Nimba senator Prince Johnson during his funeral in Ganta, Liberia, on January 18, 2025.

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 ...