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

The head of the World Health Organization’s health emergencies program said Saturday that six people who were in contact with Uganda’s latest Ebola case have become ill, though it’s not yet ...

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 ...

Uganda Begins Ebola Vaccine Trial After New Outbreak Kills a Nurse and Infects 2 Other People KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan authorities on Monday began a clinical trial of a vaccine against the ...

An Ebola outbreak has been reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). At least a dozen cases of the hemorrhagic fever have been reported in the Bolamba health zone, which is located in ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A nurse in Uganda has died of Ebola in the first recorded fatality since the country's last outbreak of the disease ended in early 2023, a health official said Thursday.