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No new Ebola infections have been detected in Uganda for 42 days, and so on Wednesday, the World Health Organization and the Ugandan Ministry of Health officially declared that the country’s ...
An Ebola outbreak has been reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Experts share concerns about the highly fatal and contagious hemorrhagic fever.
Uganda is grappling with a growing Ebola outbreak, as cases have risen to 14 following the emergence of a new infection cluster, Africa’s top public health agency reported on Thursday.
A nurse in Uganda has died of Ebola in the first recorded fatality since the country’s last outbreak of the disease ended in early 2023, a health official said Thursday.
Authorities say there have been no reports of Ebola, requests for Ebola testing or announcement of an Ebola outbreak related to Burning Man.
A 24-year-old man who tested positive for Ebola virus disease caused by Sudan ebolavirus (SUDV) was the first confirmed case in Uganda’s ongoing Ebola outbreak, but health authorities believe he ...
State officials and infectious diseases experts told doctors to be on the lookout for symptoms consistent with Ebola virus infection among people who have traveled recently to Uganda.
Uganda discharged on Tuesday the last eight patients who recovered from Ebola, and there were no other positive cases in the outbreak declared last month.
After Uganda’s outbreak, the CDC urges doctors to be on alert for Ebola—also known as Ebola virus disease (EVD) and Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF)—a rare but deadly virus.
Ugandan officials are preparing to deploy a trial vaccine as part of efforts to stem an outbreak of Ebola in the capital, Kampala, a top health official said Sunday.
Ebola has flared up intermittently in Africa for more than 40 years, most notably during an outbreak between 2013 and 2016 that infected 28,000 people and took more than 11,000 lives.