(AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda) KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda's Ebola outbreak is “rapidly evolving” a month after the disease was reported in the East African country, a top World Health Organization ...
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 ...
Viruses that cause mild sniffles in humans are devastating populations of chimpanzees and gorillas. In some ape communities, ...
By cutting trees in response to international demand for tobacco, farmers induced wildlife to start eating virus-laden bat ...
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.
Uganda engages communities in physical and mental health activities as part of the World Health Day Commemoration ...
Effective public health communication is essential for Africa, confronted with numerous infectious disease epidemics and ...
In 2018, there was another ebola outbreak in the African continent ... When the disease spread to neighbouring Uganda in 2019 ...
“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 ...
In the heart of Mount Elgon National Park in Kenya lies a natural wonder with a dark and deadly secret - the Kitum Cave. This ...
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 ...