In her new book, A History of the World in Six Plagues, Edna Bonhomme describes a 2014 epidemic that decimated a neighborhood ...

On 18 February, Byegarazo and seven others walked out of treatment centers in Kampala and Mbale, a city in Eastern Uganda, ...

Uganda, according to the Ministry of Health, has had eight Ebola outbreaks with the latest happening in 2022 and the most ...

On Jan. 29, 2025, the Ministry of Health of Uganda officially declared an Ebola outbreak in Kampala, with 10 confirmed cases reported as of March. This marks the eighth Ebola outbreak in Uganda ...

The Ministry of Health has suspended community burials in the Rwenzori sub-region, mandating that all deceased individuals undergo Ebola testing before burial. Additionally, school visitations have ...

The foreign aid program has been one of the country's best defenses against emerging infectious diseases. Without it, we are ...

U.S.-funded organizations helped keep dangerous pathogens in check around the world. Now many safeguards are gone, and ...

The eleventh confirmed case involves a woman who had contact with the boy, and the twelfth is a woman who had contact with ...

Brazil has reported its first clade 1b mpox case, per a notice from the national Health Ministry.

The Ebola virus disease outbreak now ravaging parts of West Africa is the largest on record. In fact, West Africa has seen more cases of the disease in 2014 than have been seen in all other ...

So to your point about H5N1, with the mortality being so high, it's possible that the traditional presentation was the ...

I had seen the writing on the wall that this was going to be a major global-involved event and it was going to have an impact ...