Doctors put on protective equipment as they prepare to visit a patient who was in contact with an Ebola victim, in the isolation section of Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital in Entebbe, Uganda ...
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, a top ...
African health experts are urgently investigating a mystery disease outbreak in Uganda which has killed at least 14 people and seen some 40 fall ill. The mystery disease is being probed by the ...
The Ebola virus disease outbreak now ravaging parts of West Africa is the largest on record. In fact, West Africa has seen more cases of the disease in 2014 than have been seen in all other ...
Overview: This practice briefing sets out what BBC Media Action learned in delivering and supporting health communication in response to the Ebola crisis in West Africa in 2014–15. It has a ...
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 ...
Viruses that cause mild sniffles in humans are devastating populations of chimpanzees and gorillas. In some ape communities, ...
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.
THE World Health Organisation today declared the ebola outbreak in West Africa to be an international public health emergency. WHO chief Dr Margaret Chan said the announcement was "a clear call for ...
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 ...