News Analysis — Uganda's Ministry of Health together with its partners, the World Health Organization (WHO) Country Office and, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC ...

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

New research this month shows that the experimental antiviral obeldesivir prevented up to 100% of deaths in monkeys infected ...

Uganda has had five Ebola outbreaks since 2000, the second-highest in Africa after the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The team confirmed that the patient had died of the Sudan Virus Disease ...

The monkeys were given an Ebola virus dose which is roughly 30,000 times ... Most Ebola outbreaks affect sub-Saharan Africa where the health infrastructure is not capable of handling the antibody ...

Ebola in Uganda is the latest in a trend of outbreaks of viral hemorrhagic fevers in the east African region. Tanzania declared an outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg disease in January, and in ...

A new cluster of Ebola cases has emerged in Uganda, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said on Thursday, adding that efforts were being made to intensify monitoring and ...

The 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa killed more than 11,000 people – the virus’s largest death toll. The virus is transmitted through contact with infected bodily fluids and tissues.

Kei Sato was looking for his next big challenge five years ago when it smacked him — and the world — in the face. The ...

Monkeys infected with Ebola can be cured with a pill, according to a new study out Friday that could pave the way for more ...

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