KAMPALA, Uganda — Ebola cases in Uganda have risen to nine, while 265 other people were being monitored under quarantine, ...

Ebola cases in Uganda have risen to nine, while 265 other people are being monitored under quarantine, health authorities ...

A more infectious strain of mpox that triggered a public health emergency across Central and Eastern Africa last year has ...

Professor Peter Piot is director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and former executive director of UNAIDS and Under-Secretary General of the UN. He co-discovered Ebola in 1976.

This state-of-the-art institute was pioneered by Dr Jean Jacques Muyembe, the microbiologist who first discovered Ebola. In the first week of January 2025 there were 1,155 confirmed cases and 27 ...

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was releasing an additional $2 million to ...

Breastfeeding is so important for child health that the World Health Organization (WHO) and Unicef recommend that babies ...

Uganda has confirmed an outbreak of Sudan virus disease, with the first case linked to a 32-year-old nurse in Kampala.

There are no approved vaccines or treatments for Sudan virus disease, which has a 40–70% fatality rate. To curb the ongoing outbreak, Uganda has deployed—under a clinical trial setting—a vaccine ...