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 ...
Part of a team flown in to fight the deadly virus in 1976, Dr. Breman also worked to stamp out tropical diseases like ...
Epidemiology researchers are harnessing tools developed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, ...
In this explainer, we lay out why the disease, which can kill up to 50 percent of patients who progress to severe symptoms, ...
Now that Ebola is creeping closer and closer to our shores, I am scared. What is the outbreak like around the world now? At the time of writing, the Ebola virus has infected more than 5,300 ...
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.
Zika and other public health emergencies, effective communication of public health messages is crucial to control the spread ...
Dr Yonas Tegegn Woldemariam, WHO Representative to Uganda, welcomed the country's progress in key healthcare areas.
Effective public health communication is essential for Africa, confronted with numerous infectious disease epidemics and ...
A study led by the University of Stirling jointly with the University of Wisconsin-Madison has shed new light on ...