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 ...
Dr Yonas Tegegn Woldemariam, WHO Representative to Uganda, welcomed the country's progress in key healthcare areas.
The Africa CDC made the call after Uganda on Tuesday declared an Ebola virus disease outbreak in Mubende district in the central part of the country, following a confirmed case in Mubende regional ...
Ebola first appeared in 1976 in two simultaneous outbreaks in what is now Nzara ... in large numbers in countries including Guinea, Uganda, Gabon, South Africa, and the Ivory Coast.
Robinah Nabbanja pointed out that Uganda's market ... which is why there are often outbreaks of infectious diseases on its territory. As an example, Nabbanja cited the Ebola epidemic, which ...
In this explainer, we lay out why the disease, which can kill up to 50 percent of patients who progress to severe symptoms, ...
The ‘cousin’ of Ebola that leaves its victims in a ‘ghost-like’ state is one of the world’s deadliest viruses – and there’s ...
Breman was part of the team that investigated the first known Ebola outbreak in 1976.
Eight more measles cases have been reported, putting the nation's total at 121 so far this year, the US Centers for Disease ...
“Yellow fever falls in the same group [as] Ebola. Those are dangerous diseases spread by mosquitoes; one case constitutes an outbreak,” Dr Ombeva Malande, a vaccinologist at the Uganda’s ...