The foreign aid program has been one of the country's best defenses against emerging infectious diseases. Without it, we are ...

Uganda has had eight Ebola outbreaks, with the latest happening in 2022 and the most recent one in January 2025 Thank you for reading Nation.Africa Show plans The Minister of Health, Dr Jane Ruth ...

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

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U.S.-funded organizations helped keep dangerous pathogens in check around the world. Now many safeguards are gone, and ...

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 ...

Dr. Herbert Luswata, president of the Uganda Medical Association, said that the Ebola response had been badly hampered by the ...

Three new Ebola cases have been reported in Uganda, bringing the total to 12 since the outbreak began in late January, the ...