Dengue fever cases have been rising among U.S. travelers and are expected to climb this year, according to a warning from the ...

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 ...

In contrast, Ebola virus disease is a rare but severe illness characterized by symptoms such as fever, vomiting, diarrhea, muscle pain, and, in severe cases, internal and external bleeding. Ebola is ...

A CDC program tests wastewater from airplanes, looking for pathogens that may have hitched a ride with passengers on long-haul international flights.

“Infected people are contagious from 4 days before the rash starts through 4 days afterward. The incubation period for ...

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

Ebola Spreads to the Capital. The Africa CDC noted that the new cluster has no direct epidemiological link to a previous ...

A new cluster of Ebola cases has emerged in Uganda, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said on Thursday, adding that efforts were being made to intensify monitoring and ...

The Africa CDC reported that there was no direct epidemiological ... Scientists suspect the first person infected with Ebola ...

On Tuesday, the east African country confirmed it had recorded 10 cases of the Sudan Ebola strain of the often deadly virus including that of a nurse at Mulago National Referral Hospital ...

Kampala: A young child has died of the Ebola virus in Uganda, the second victim of an outbreak that was announced in late January, the health ministry said on Saturday. On Tuesday, the east ...

Scientists suspect the first person infected with Ebola in an outbreak acquired the virus through contact with an infected animal or eating its raw meat. Uganda’s last outbreak, discovered in ...