The current outbreak of Ebola in Uganda, which manifests as a viral hemorrhagic fever, has so far infected 109 people and killed 31. [iStockphoto] Uganda's Ebola outbreak is under control ...
Prior to 2014, the largest outbreak of Ebola virus disease on record, caused by Sudan ebolavirus, resulted in 425 cases and 224 deaths in Uganda. There are several reasons for the scope and ...
Those struck by the outbreak in Uganda’s Kyotera district have developed ... pathogens that jump from animals to humans, such as Ebola and Marburg viruses, have made it a focus of pandemic ...
Epidemiology researchers are harnessing tools developed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, to untangle the origins of the 2020 Ebola virus disease outbreak ...
“It could have been Ebola ... pathogen that has caused a chimp outbreak in Kibale was present in children living nearby. Then, during Uganda’s most stringent Covid-19 lockdown between ...
The paper sets out the specific communication challenge posed by Ebola and why it was so difficult to get to grips with this in the early months of the outbreak. It then documents when the health ...
Dr. Mory Keita is a WHO Field Coordinator in the city of Beni in North Kivu, right in the heart of the Ebola epidemic. He has spent months on the ground responding to the outbreak, and he says ...
A meeting convened by WHO in Africa in February, 2024, aimed to develop a protocol for assessing new treatments for filovirus diseases during outbreaks. Esther Nakkazi reports.
Green MP Steffan Browning says giving his support to a call for the World Health Organisation to deploy homeopathic remedies to combat the Ebola epidemic in West Africa was 'probably pretty unwise'.
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberians gathered this week to mark a decade since the country was hit by a devastating Ebola outbreak that killed more than 10,000 people in West Africa, adding to the ...