The US is no stranger to epidemics. As far back as the 1600s, for example, Americans were falling victim to smallpox. Since ...

Some staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development raced against the moment their computer access would be shut ...

Anti-vaccine activists seized on a deadly outbreak in Seminole, setting off a battle between fringe doctors and mainstream medicine.

A health worker walks outside Mulago Referral Hospital in Kampala, Uganda Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025 US strikes on Iran ‘less devastating than expected’, intercepted calls reveal Dick Van Dyke’s wife ...

The 2022 health crisis was Uganda’s seventh outbreak of Ebola – a highly infectious hemorrhagic disease – and its fifth of the Sudan virus (SVD) strain, which has a more than 40 percent ...

A WHO official told STAT that 12 suspected cases of Ebola, including eight deaths, have been recorded in the Boyenge health area, in DRC’s Equateur province. The deaths occurred between Jan. 10 ...

This area covers 27 African countries from Guinea to Uganda. We started with seven locations of past Ebola outbreaks that researchers have linked to forest loss.

This outbreak, which involved the Ebola Sudan strain of the virus, began in September and killed 56 people, including seven health care workers, and caused 142 confirmed infections.

The United States, which has donated more than $22 million to fight Ebola, has been concerned about corruption, too, said Natalie E. Brown, the American ambassador to Uganda.

Uganda health authorities declared an outbreak of Ebola virus disease in September, and as of early November, 136 confirmed cases, 21 probable cases and 53 confirmed deaths have been identified ...

While the Ebola outbreak in Uganda does not present the same risk scenario that COVID-19 once did, if we learned anything from the pandemic, now is the time for America to take Ebola seriously ...

In total, the outbreak caused 11,323 deaths. Eleven people were treated for Ebola in the US during the 2014 epidemic. Two died — a Liberian and a doctor from Sierra Leone who had both travelled ...