In her new book, A History of the World in Six Plagues, Edna Bonhomme describes a 2014 epidemic that decimated a neighborhood ...

West Philippine Sea is the name given by an administrative order (AO) of then President Benigno Aquino III to Philippine territorial waters west of the country. Aquino’s AO said West Philippine Sea ...

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 ...

An Irish traveller's innocent comparison between South Africa's Coffee Bay and western Ireland sparked defensive reactions ...

Ebola spreads to people from bats, nonhuman primates, and antelopes. From there it can spread from human to human and cause outbreaks, most of which happen in parts of Africa. According to experts, ...

The World Bank is launching Education Business Plan 2030 for Eastern and Southern Africa, to prepare over 200 million children and youth to transform Africa's future. The goal is for all children and ...

So we restored the Ebola prevention immediately ... It reached urban areas, and it began spreading in urban capitals in West Africa and really just exploded. That then became a much, much larger ...

More than 15,000 people have died of Ebola in Africa in the past 50 years. It was discovered in 1976 in simultaneous outbreaks in South Sudan and Congo, where it occurred in a village near the ...

The 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa killed more than 11,000 people – the virus’s largest death toll. The virus is transmitted through contact with infected bodily fluids and tissues.

Uganda's previous Ebola outbreak lasted for four months in 2022 and 2023, claiming 55 lives. The deadliest epidemic of the haemorrhagic fever occurred in west Africa between 2013 and 2016 and ...

A second Ebola patient, a four-year-old child, has died in Uganda, the World Health Organization said, citing the country’s health ministry. The fatality brings the number of confirmed cases in Uganda ...