KAMPALA, UGANDA | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has embarked on a 42-day count-down to end the Sudan Ebola Virus ...

New research this month shows that the experimental antiviral obeldesivir prevented up to 100% of deaths in monkeys infected ...

Dr. Herbert Luswata, president of the Uganda Medical Association, said that the Ebola response had been badly hampered by the ...

When COVID-19 arrived in the United States five years ago, the emergence of the new virus was no surprise for pandemic expert ...

Africa’s top public health agency says that Uganda’s Ebola caseload increased to 14 in the last week with a new cluster ...

On 18 February, Byegarazo and seven others walked out of treatment centers in Kampala and Mbale, a city in Eastern Uganda, ...

As well as protecting the monkeys from death, the treatment also evoked an immune response. Senior author Dr Thomas Geisbert ...

SCIENTISTS have found a pill that offers ‘100 per cent protection’ against Ebola – sparking hopes of eradicating the deadly eye-bleeding disease. Ebola is a rare but severe ...

Health workers comb affected districts for remnant cases NEWS ANALYSIS | RONALD MUSOKE |  Uganda’s Ministry of Health ...

In her new book, A History of the World in Six Plagues, Edna Bonhomme describes a 2014 epidemic that decimated a neighborhood ...

At the time, Wolfgang Petersen’s 'Outbreak' was too farfetched to seem true. Now, it just seems eerily prescient.

This marks the eighth Ebola outbreak in Uganda since 2000. The hemorrhagic virus is highly infectious and fatal, prompting public health officials to seek containment. During the 2022 Ebola ...