According to a new study, an experiment on monkeys has shown that Ebola can be cured with just a pill. First discovered in ...

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, ...

Lassa virus is usually contracted through exposure to food or household items that have been contaminated with the urine or faeces of infected rodents, and it is endemic to West Africa ...

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.

The axing of some 10,000 programs has consigned untold numbers of children and refugees to death, officials say. Documents ...

In her new book, A History of the World in Six Plagues, Edna Bonhomme describes a 2014 epidemic that decimated a neighborhood ...

A four-year-old child became the second person to die of Ebola in Uganda since the outbreak was announced in late January, the World Health Organization said on Saturday. On Tuesday, Ugandan health ...

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 ...

The country is presently battling its eighth Ebola outbreak, confirmed by the Ministry of Health in January, with two ...