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

Staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been told to halt all communication with the World Health ...

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. Diana Atwine, permanent secretary of the health ...

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

In a statement, Dr. Richard Dawood, an adviser to the African Travel & Tourism Association, said, "For the vast majority of tourist activities, the risk is virtually zero." ...

Nairobi: An outbreak of the Marburg virus has killed nine people in Tanzania, Africa's health ... the African Union's Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said "there have ...

The President of Tanzania, Her Excellency Samia Suluhu ... According to the World Health Organisation, the Marburg virus disease is a deadly disease which is highly virulent, can cause ...

One "confirmed case of Marburg virus marks the second outbreak" in Tanzania since 2023 ... Marburg causes a highly infectious haemorrhagic fever. It is transmitted from fruit bats and belongs ...

Tanzania previously reported an outbreak of Marburg in March 2023 – the country’s first – in Kagera region, in which a total of nine cases (eight confirmed and one probable) and six deaths ...