In her new book 'A History of the World in Six Plagues,' Edna Bonhomme describes a 2014 epidemic that decimated a neighborhood — possibly foreshadowing what's to come.

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

On 18 February, Byegarazo and seven others walked out of treatment centers in Kampala and Mbale, a city in Eastern Uganda, ...

The government of Sweden has announced new funding of $2 million (about Shs7.3 billion) for UNICEF to respond to the Sudan ...

Sarah Naluyima is a dedicated community health worker at the forefront of Uganda’s Ebola outbreak response. For 15 years, Sarah has worked in her community, raising awareness about various health ...

As well as protecting the monkeys from death, the treatment also evoked an immune response. Senior author Dr Thomas Geisbert ...

The foreign aid program has been one of the country's best defenses against emerging infectious diseases. Without it, we are ...

A review of research over two decades points to steps that can make education systems more resilient in times of crisis.

Tanzania declares the end of the Marburg virus outbreak, but Africa continues to battle rising health crises, including ...

Scientists have found that an oral antiviral drug successfully prevents monkeys from dying after an Ebola infection, an ...

The Ebola virus disease outbreak now ravaging parts of West Africa is the largest on record. In fact, West Africa has seen more cases of the disease in 2014 than have been seen in all other ...

The Government of Sweden has announced funding of up to $2m (about shillings 7.3 billion) into the ;Sudan Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak response in Uganda.The contribution being channelled ...