The country is presently battling its eighth Ebola outbreak, confirmed by the Ministry of Health in January, with two ...

New research this month shows that the experimental antiviral obeldesivir prevented up to 100% of deaths in monkeys infected ...

According to a new study, an experiment on monkeys has shown that Ebola can be cured with just a pill. First discovered in ...

Lassa virus is usually contracted through exposure to food or household items that have been contaminated with the urine or ...

A 4-year-old child became the second person to die of Ebola in Uganda, the World Health Organization said Saturday, in a setback for health officials who had hoped for a quick end to the outbreak ...

The World Health Organization says the 4-year-old passed away this week at Mulago Hospital in the capital, Kampala.

Ebola in Uganda is the latest in a trend of outbreaks of viral hemorrhagic fevers in the east African region. Tanzania declared an outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg disease in January, and in ...

More than 50 people have died in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, most within 48 hours of the onset of symptoms. Initial analysis suggests neither Ebola nor Marburg is the cause.

Africa CDC official Ngashi Ngongo told reporters that since the last briefing on Thursday a new cluster with three confirmed ...

and there are no approved vaccines for the Sudan strain of Ebola that’s infecting people in Uganda. Ebola, which is spread by contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person or contaminated ...