Six weeks after Rwanda-backed rebels captured the eastern Congolese cities of Goma and Bukavu, the region is facing a setback ...

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

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

a professor of public health at Congo’s National Pedagogical University, who previously worked at the Congolese health ...

Bats are thought to be natural reservoirs for Marburg and Ebola viruses ... covers an area the size of Kentucky straddling the Congo River, much of it sparsely populated farmland and rainforest.

Ebola was discovered in 1976 in two simultaneous outbreaks in South Sudan and Congo, where it occurred in a village near the Ebola River, after which the disease is named.

KAMPALA, Uganda — Uganda discharged on Tuesday the last eight patients who recovered from Ebola, health authorities reported, and there were no other positive cases in the outbreak declared last ...