In her new book, A History of the World in Six Plagues, Edna Bonhomme describes a 2014 epidemic that decimated a neighborhood — possibly foreshadowing what's to come ...

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 pill protected 80 per cent of the cynomolgus macaques and 100 per cent of the rhesus macaques, which are biologically ...

Scientists have found that an oral antiviral drug successfully prevents monkeys from dying after an Ebola infection, an ...

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

Overall, Uganda has recorded 14 cases and two deaths since the start of the outbreak, according to Africa CDC. "Ebola in ...

After hearing from African leaders and getting their buy-in, public health leaders agreed on a three-part plan to address the ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Organizations funded by the United States helped keep dangerous pathogens in check around the world. Now many safeguards are ...