Uganda is battling its eighth outbreak of Ebola - a highly infectious disease with a fatality rate of over 40%.

A new retrospective, laboratory-based observational study provides detailed insights into the causes of fevers of unknown origin in sub-Saharan Africa. Scientists examined 550 patients from Guinea who ...

The Ugandan government and the World Health Organization recently confirmed an outbreak of Sudan virus disease. The index (first-known) case of this outbreak is thought to be a 32-year-old male nurse ...

A new retrospective, laboratory-based observational study provides detailed insights into the causes of fevers of unknown ...

The health ministry of Uganda has reported an increase in confirmed Ebola cases from three to nine.

The number of confirmed Ebola cases in Uganda has risen to nine from three, the country's health ministry said.

There are no approved vaccines or treatments for Sudan virus disease, which has a 40–70% fatality rate. To curb the ongoing outbreak, Uganda has deployed—under a clinical trial setting—a vaccine ...

Amid a new Ebola outbreak in Kampala, Uganda, the World Health Organization has kicked off a vaccine trial. This is the first ...

Infectious disease emergencies can threaten breastfeeding and the lives of mothers and babies. Depending on the disease, ...

Lange's study revealed that the most common ancestor of Zaire ebolavirus was circulating in the forests of what is now the ...

Ebola damages blood vessels and causes severe, internal bleeding It spreads from animals to humans, and among humans, through close contact with blood, organs, secretions and other bodily fluids from ...