Viruses that cause the common cold in humans are devastating populations of chimpanzees and gorillas. In some ape communities ...
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 ...
By cutting trees in response to international demand for tobacco, farmers induced wildlife to start eating virus-laden bat ...
THE West African Ebola outbreak is accelerating and could grow six times larger and infect as many as 20,000 people, the World Health Organisation warned on Thursday. The UN health agency unveiled a ...
Around the world, deforestation — often to clear land for agriculture — has been linked to outbreaks of diseases that have jumped from animal to human. HIV, Zika, Sars, mpox and Ebola are some of the ...
Epidemiology researchers are harnessing tools developed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, ...
Uganda engages communities in physical and mental health activities as part of the World Health Day Commemoration ...
Part of a team flown in to fight the deadly virus in 1976, Dr. Breman also worked to stamp out tropical diseases like ...
A meeting convened by WHO in Africa in February, 2024, aimed to develop a protocol for assessing new treatments for filovirus diseases during outbreaks. Esther Nakkazi reports.
“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 ...
THE World Health Organisation today declared the ebola outbreak in West Africa to be an international public health emergency. WHO chief Dr Margaret Chan said the announcement was "a clear call for ...
Effective public health communication is essential for Africa, confronted with numerous infectious disease epidemics and ...