Wild Africa, a conservation nonprofit, has called for urgent and consistent action to reduce the risk of future pandemics by ...

As the world marks World Zoonoses Day on Sunday, July 6, 2025, Wild Africa is calling for urgent and consistent action to ...

As the world marks World Zoonoses Day today, Wild Africa is calling for urgent and consistent action to reduce the risk of ...

A Tiverton-based engineer has been lending his support to a grassroots campaign in Sierra Leone as the country grapples with ...

Govt needs to strengthen the health sector to confront the malady …it should also step up effort like it’s already doing in terms of awareness, says Enabulele Nigeria is currently experiencing a Lassa ...

Analysis - As of 17 June 2025, there have been over 4,000 confirmed cases of mpox and 25 deaths in Sierra Leone, raising the ...

The Mpox virus (formerly known as monkeypox) continues to make an unsettling return across several communities in West and Central African countries, with Sierra Leone becoming the latest ...

This evaluation focuses on the preparedness of the World Bank Group, including the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), to support epidemic- and pandemic-related health ...

The virus is moving widely ... at the epicenter of a disease outbreak while the world looked away. In 2014, Ebola swept through the West African region. A single mutation supercharged its spread just ...

Ebola virus, also known as Zaire ebolavirus, has a fatality rate of up to 90 per cent in humans. The Makona variant was responsible for the 2014 epidemic. According to the CDC, there were 28,652 ...

The 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic in West Africa was the largest to date, spreading to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. A total of of 28,646 suspected cases were reported along with 11,323 deaths.