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Kampala, Uganda — A nurse in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, has died of Ebola, a health official said Thursday, in the first recorded fatality since the last outbreak ended in 2023. Diana Atwine, ...
Democratic Republic of Congo-- North Kivu is the most volatile region in the Democratic Republic of Congo – an active war zone where the latest Ebola outbreak is centered. Moving around parts of the ...
Ugandan officials have reported 11 more cases of Ebola in the capital since Friday, a worrisome increase in infections just over a month after an outbreak was declared in a remote part of the East ...
Liberian liaison to the local nonprofit Raise Your Hand Foundation, Alexander Ireland, left, works in the kitchen of foundation founder, Shelley Spurlock in Roseville, Wednesday, December 1, 2016. The ...
Ethiopia has initiated an emergency response after confirming the first cases of Marburg virus in the country’s history.
The fatality rate of the Marburg virus is 50 per cent, and there is no approved vaccine or antiviral treatment for the virus ...
It’s official. We now have a real Ebola vaccine. Not a kind-of-almost-sort-of-there vaccine. Not an experimental-use vaccine. Not a vaccine just for macaques. No, this is a vaccine that the European ...
Ebola’s legacy reveals an uncomfortable truth: environmental sustainability is not just conservation, it is disease prevention.
Uganda has been struggling with an Ebola outbreak for months, and although there have been no suspected or probable Ebola cases identified in the United States, federal and local health officials are ...
The incurable Ebola virus has long been feared due to its high mortality rate and danger of infection. Now researchers have succeeded in inhibiting the virus in cell cultures. The researchers hope to ...
Since August 2018, 608 probable cases of Ebola have been reported in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The Ministry of Health said 368 have died and 207 have recovered. The second ...