Emergency vaccination during outbreaks of diseases like cholera, Ebola and measles have over the past quarter-century reduced ...

Emergency vaccination campaigns have slashed deaths from major infectious disease outbreaks by nearly 60 per cent since 2000, ...

Emergency vaccination programmes – rolled out in response to outbreaks of five major diseases – are believed to have reduced deaths by around 60% over a period of 23 years, according to a new study, ...

In the shadows of Python Cave, Uganda, a leopard leaps from a guano mound—formed by bat excrement—and sinks its teeth into a ...

WHO Africa incident manager for the Ebola outbreak in Uganda, Patrick Otim, says the number of zoonotic diseases occurring in the region in the last decade has increased by more than 63%.

Africa's top public health body said on Thursday that the Ebola outbreak in Uganda was "not getting out of hand" and that it was still under control, despite an increase in cases that have spread ...

State officials and infectious diseases experts told doctors to be on the lookout for symptoms consistent with Ebola virus infection among people who have traveled recently to Uganda.

A bombshell analysis suggests that a new Ebola outbreak in Guinea was sparked by person infected at least five years ago in the West Africa Ebola crisis.

The World Health Organization is rapidly responding to a pair of new Ebola outbreaks in Africa. The two unrelated outbreaks, in Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo, have both appeared in ...

New Ebola Outbreak Threatens in Congo A woman who was in contact with at least 70 people has died of Ebola in a violence-plagued region of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Benedict Moran: This outbreak began in August 2018, in the remote north of the country. Ebola then reached major cities, including here in Beni, and risked spreading across East Africa and beyond.