The rapid spread of illness in the African country may be due to contaminated water, rather than a virus that jumped from bat ...

Uganda's Ministry of Health together with its partners, the World Health Organization (WHO) Country Office and, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), have in recent weeks ...

According to a new study, an experiment on monkeys has shown that Ebola can be cured with just a pill. First discovered in ...

New research this month shows that the experimental antiviral obeldesivir prevented up to 100% of deaths in monkeys infected ...

As well as protecting the monkeys from death, the treatment also evoked an immune response. Senior author Dr Thomas Geisbert ...

Monkeys infected with Ebola can be cured with a pill, according to a new study out Friday that could pave the way for more ...

Monkeys infected with Ebola can be cured with a pill, according to a new study out Friday that could pave the way for more ...

In her new book 'A History of the World in Six Plagues,' Edna Bonhomme describes a 2014 epidemic that decimated a neighborhood — possibly foreshadowing what's to come.

The United States is home to a worsening bird flu crisis. Multiple hemorrhagic fever viruses are smoldering: Ebola in Uganda, ...

Ebola in Uganda is the latest in a trend of outbreaks of viral hemorrhagic fevers in the east African region. Tanzania ...

Africa's top public health agency says that Uganda's Ebola caseload increased to 14 in the last week with a new cluster ...

If the outbreak is caused by a viral hemorrhagic fever like Ebola, which spreads from person to person via contact with infected bodily fluids, controlling it will require many more resources ...