In 2020-2021, a mysterious skin disease affected fishermen in Senegal. High levels of Portimine A toxin, produced by the ...

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was releasing an additional $2 million to ...

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 ...

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

Uganda has confirmed an outbreak of Sudan virus disease, with the first case linked to a 32-year-old nurse in Kampala.

The Ministry of Health has closed Saidina Abubaker Islamic Hospital and evacuated all health workers to an isolation facility ...

Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee voted to move forward with Trump's nominee to run Health and Human Services (HHS) ...

In a global first, Uganda's Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners today launched a first ever vaccine trial for Ebola from the Sudan species of the virus, and at ...

Some schools are re-instituting the Covid-19 standard operating procedures to try and curb the spread of the two diseases ...

After a nurse died of the Ebola virus, the country has declared Ebola outbreak and is now deploying vaccine against the Sudan ...

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