the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), have in recent weeks intensified sensitisation of communities in the Ebola virus disease-affected districts. Thanks to support ...

On 18 February, Byegarazo and seven others walked out of treatment centers in Kampala and Mbale, a city in Eastern Uganda, after being declared Ebola-free. However, health authorities have stressed ...

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

Ebola virus disease (EVD), formerly known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, is a deadly disease. The virus is still so mysterious and severe illness can kill up to 90 per cent of its victims.

First identified in 1976 and thought to have crossed over from bats, Ebola is a deadly viral disease spread through direct ...

Recognised examples of such diseases include Ebola, Lassa fever and Marburg virus. Symptoms recorded so far of the unknown disease in the DRC include fever, chills, headache, body aches ...

The World Health Organization is investigating "another cluster of illness" in northern Congo, as a deadly mystery disease spreads in the region.

The Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) deaths and containment efforts for the contagious disease have caused deep family pain amid severe economic strain on the country. The suffering has continued as ...

The list of 24 infectious diseases has been created to help scientists make new tests, vaccines and medication in preparation ...

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 ...

The outbreak has been caused by a strain of the Ebola virus for which there are no approved ... The Africa Centers for Disease Control said on Thursday that there were five cases in the cluster ...

First identified in 1976 and thought to have crossed over from bats, Ebola is a deadly viral disease spread through direct ...