Ebola is rare, deadly and has multiple variations. There is a vaccine for the Zaire type, now trials for another are underway ...

"If we don't know what the wildlife host is, we can't know how, where or when that will be." Scientists make major ...

U.S. health officials are telling Americans to take precautions if they travel to Uganda because of an Ebola outbreak.

Uganda on Monday started the first-ever vaccination trial for the Sudan species of the Ebola virus four days after an ...

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A nurse has died from Ebola in the Ugandan capital Kampala, the health ministry said Thursday. “An outbreak of Sudan Ebola ...

More than 1 million children and their families will be targeted in a major Mpox prevention campaign in Sierra Leone launched by Save the Children after the West African country recorded its first ...

Tanzania faces a deadly Marburg virus outbreak, claiming 8 lives in Kagera region. The government and WHO are mobilizing efforts to prevent further spread.

2 The Ebola virus was first described in central Africa 9 years later. Except for the nonpathogenic Reston species of Ebola, transmission ... control — a social mechanism for so-called treatment ...

Kenya has stepped up its preparedness for Marburg virus disease (MVD) following the recent outbreak in the neighbouring Tanzania, which has reportedly claimed eight lives as of January 16.

The president of Tanzania has confirmed a case of the Marburg virus in the country. Marburg belongs to the same family of illnesses as Ebola and can cause death in up to 88% of cases. President ...

Marburg virus disease, caused by a virus from the same family as Ebola, has a fatality rate of up to 88% without treatment. The disease is transmitted from fruit bats to humans and spreads through ...