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 ...
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 ...
Epidemiology researchers are harnessing tools developed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, to untangle the origins of the 2020 Ebola virus disease outbreak ...
Viruses that cause mild sniffles in humans are devastating populations of chimpanzees and gorillas. In some ape communities, ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Six years after Malaysia first announced it had halted malaria spread by mosquitoes from person to person, the ...
Zika and other public health emergencies, effective communication of public health messages is crucial to control the spread of disease, maintain public trust, and encourage compliance with health ...