Ugandan authorities have begun a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola that has killed one person in ...

The WHO and the CDC coordinated well when faced with viral outbreaks. This is no time to demolish a well-oiled machine.

A potential Ebola outbreak has been reported in the DRC, at a time when the Trump administration has paused communication ...

Rwanda is studying the survivors of its recent Marburg outbreak to better understand how they survived. Rwanda swiftly ...

A Ugandan health official says a nurse in the capital, Kampala, has died of Ebola, in the first recorded fatality since the last outbreak ended in 2023 ...

AP Tanzania declared an outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg disease earlier this month, and in December Rwanda announced that its own outbreak of Marburg was over. The ongoing Marburg outbreak in ...

Since the country officially announced the outbreak last week, ten people have tested positive for Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease similar to Ebola. Of these, nine have died ...

Meanwhile, in neighbouring Tanzania, nine people have died after testing positive for the Marburg virus, a highly infectious cousin of Ebola. The patient in Uganda, a 32-year-old male nurse ...

Ebola and Marburg viruses are part of a group of viruses known as filoviruses, which are notorious for causing severe hemorrhagic fevers in humans and non-human primates. These viruses have been ...

Tanzania declared an outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg disease earlier this month, and in December Rwanda announced that its own outbreak of Marburg was over. The World Health Organization (WHO ...

Meanwhile, the neighboring country of Tanzania has been grappling with an outbreak of Marburg fever. "This is an unusually high death rate, even for Ebola," said Jacob Glanville, CEO and president ...

Tanzania declared an outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg disease this month; in December, Rwanda announced that its outbreak of Marburg was over. The World Health Organization will send an initial ...