The Ebola virus disease outbreak now ravaging parts of West Africa is the largest on record. In fact, West Africa has seen more cases of the disease in 2014 than have been seen in all other ...
Uganda has had more than five Ebola outbreaks in the last two decades, mostly along its western regions close to the DRC, according to the Ministry of Health. The Ebola virus is highly contagious ...
Dr Yonas Tegegn Woldemariam, WHO Representative to Uganda, welcomed the country's progress in key healthcare areas.
In this explainer, we lay out why the disease, which can kill up to 50 percent of patients who progress to severe symptoms, ...
FROM Ebola to rabies - history is full of terrifying viruses that have killed millions upon millions of people. Some have been eradicated with effective vaccines, but not all of these deadly ...
Robinah Nabbanja pointed out that Uganda's market is promising as the country is part of the East African Community, which is home to more than 302 million people and has a GDP of $313 billion ...
The ‘cousin’ of Ebola that leaves its victims in a ‘ghost-like’ state is one of the world’s deadliest viruses – and there’s ...
April 16, 2024 • The Biden administration has launched a new effort to improve the ability of the U.S. to prevent, detect and respond to global health threats. Some experts say the new strategy ...
Eight more measles cases have been reported, putting the nation's total at 121 so far this year, the US Centers for Disease ...
Between 2012 and 2022 in Uganda, there were more than 5,000 suspected and confirmed cases of yellow fever. The Health ministry said in the first phase of the vaccination in six regions ...
The ‘cousin’ of Ebola that leaves its victims in a ‘ghost-like’ state is one of the world’s deadliest viruses – and there’s still no cure for it. Marburg virus starts like a harmless ...