A chance discovery led to the identification of a possible natural reservoir for the virus formerly known as monkeypox ...

Considering that measles is more contagious than COVID-19, smallpox and ebola, it shouldn’t be surprising to see the disease spread as our vaccination rate lowers. But that doesn’t make it any ...

“Of about 11 million TB patients diagnosed in a year, in about 3–4 million, we never initiate treatment, and these patients serve as a reservoir for TB transmission.” In Esmail's study, he “took a ...

KAMPALA, March 19 (Xinhua) -- Uganda on Wednesday discharged the last two remaining Ebola patients, starting a 42-day countdown to declare the end of the latest outbreak if no new cases are ...

The trainings have been aimed at improving case detection, notification and referral of Ebola suspected cases of "health care facility level" while adhering to infection prevention and control ...

A tribute has been paid by the family of a "caring" husband and wife who died after their car went into a reservoir. The bodies of John and Marilyn Saxon, both 78, were recovered from Crook Gate ...

An expert from the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) engages with community health teams in the eastern Uganda district of Mbale on how to detect Ebola cases in their ...

The Government of Sweden has announced a $2 million [about Shs 7 billion] contribution to UNICEF to bolster efforts in tackling the ongoing Sudan Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in Uganda. This ...

The bodies of a man and a woman have been pulled from the wreckage of a car found in a reservoir in Greater Manchester. Police were called to reports of a crash at Dowry Reservoir on Huddersfield ...

Ebola is a viral haemorrhagic fever that was first discovered in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The virus' natural reservoir animal is suspected to be a species of fruit bat, which does ...