U.S. health officials on Wednesday urged Americans traveling to Uganda to take precautions because of an Ebola outbreak — and said they are helping Ugandan health officials respond to the threat ...

Uganda started a vaccination trial on Monday for the Ebola Sudan virus four days after an outbreak was confirmed, the WHO announced, beginning with those deemed at highest risk. World Health ...

(Photo by CELLOU BINANI / AFP) The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has tightened surveillance measures at entry points in the country owing to a fresh outbreak of Ebola disease in Uganda.

The often-deadly Ebola virus disease (EVD) is confined mostly to Africa, but because of how globally connected the world is today, it is regarded as a possible health threat worldwide. Still ...

The Red Cross voiced alarm Tuesday over the risk that fighting in the besieged DR Congo city of Goma could cause samples of Ebola and other pathogens held in a laboratory to escape. The ...

Since the country officially announced the outbreak last week, ten people have tested positive for Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease similar to Ebola. Of these, nine have died ...

A potential Ebola outbreak has been reported in a western part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in what would be the second viral hemorrhagic fever outbreak in the region at a time when ...

Marburg virus disease is like its close cousin Ebola, but worse. It can have a mortality rate as high as 80% and, unlike at least one strain of Ebola, we do not have an approved vaccine or ...

contact with the body or body fluids of someone who died from Ebola disease sexual contact with someone who has Ebola disease contact with semen of someone who has recovered from Ebola disease During ...

Marburg belongs to the same family of illnesses as Ebola and can cause death in up to 88% of cases. President Samia Suluhu Hassan said on Monday that at least one person in the northwest of the ...

Tanzania’s president has confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus disease (MVD), a highly infectious virus like Ebola that can be fatal in up to 88 per cent of cases without treatment.

Kadiatou and Ibrahima, Ebola orphans from Guinea, share their experience of stigma and loss ten years since the outbreak. Some Ugandans have been attacking the government's efforts, even denying ...