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 ...

Africa’s top public health agency says that Uganda’s Ebola caseload increased to 14 in the last week with a new cluster emerging from a 4-year-old child who recently died of the infectious disease.

Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility of a ...

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 ...

Overall, Uganda has recorded 14 cases and two deaths since the start of the outbreak, according to Africa CDC. "Ebola in ...

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

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.

After hearing from African leaders and getting their buy-in, public health leaders agreed on a three-part plan to address the ...

Although the Ebola outbreak will be a further strain on West African health authorities dealing with COVID-19, Moeti said public health practises for the coronavirus could be beneficial for Ebola.

Three new Ebola cases have been reported in Uganda, bringing the total to 12 since the outbreak began in late January, the African Union's health agency said Thursday. Ugandan authorities said in ...

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