(AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda) KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda's Ebola outbreak is “rapidly evolving” a month after the disease was reported in the East African country, a top World Health Organization ...
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 ...
Viruses that cause mild sniffles in humans are devastating populations of chimpanzees and gorillas. In some ape communities, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
“We were scared out of our wits,” Dr. Breman, recollecting his pioneer mission, told a National Institutes of Health newsletter in 2014, as a new and even deadlier Ebola outbreak raged that yea ...
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 ...
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 ...