THE government has intensified surveillance and precautionary measures against Mpox after confirming two cases ...

The World Health Organization speculated that a mass poisoning event was behind the deaths of 60 people. But African experts ...

Elon Musk claims he mistakenly fired Ebola prevention workers, then quickly fixed the error. But Ebola programs are still in ...

This is the latest viral epidemic to hit the East African region in the past year, following outbreaks of Marburg virus and mpox diseases among others. The World Health Organisation (WHO ...

Africa’s top public health agency says that Uganda’s Ebola caseload increased to 14 in the last week with a new cluster ...

The WHO's Africa office said earlier this week that the first outbreak was among several children who ate a bat and then died ...

U.S.-funded organizations helped keep dangerous pathogens in check around the world. Now many safeguards are gone, and ...

What we didn’t expect was the fear and uncertainty of a Marburg virus outbreak in Tanzania several hundred miles from her school. Marburg is an Ebola-like deadly virus with terrifying fatality ...

OLD child has died of Ebola in Uganda, marking the second fatality in the ongoing outbreak declared on January 30. The child passed away on Tuesday after testing positive for the viral ...

A 4-year-old child became the second person to die of Ebola in Uganda, the World Health Organization said Saturday, in a ...

Tanzania declared an outbreak of the Marburg disease in January, and in December, Rwanda announced its own outbreak of Marburg was over. Uganda has had multiple Ebola outbreaks, including one in ...