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

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

The outbreak marks Uganda's eighth from an Ebola virus. The first confirmed case in the outbreak was a nurse at a hospital in the nation's capital, Kampala, who contracted Ebola on Jan. 20 or Jan. 21 ...

The world’s richest man is boasting about destroying the United States Agency for International Development, which saves the ...

Nigeria needs to step up disease prevention and control and decentralise disease surveillance as the US pulls donor funding.

For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...

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Uganda has launched a trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of the Ebola virus, following an outbreak in the country ...

Ugandan officials are preparing to deploy a trial vaccine as part of efforts to stem an outbreak of Ebola in the capital, ...

Test results on the sick people are pending, and a top WHO official said the outbreak response is proceeding rapidly.

A nurse in Uganda has died of Ebola in the first recorded fatality since the country’s last outbreak of the disease ended in ...