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

The Ebola virus disease outbreak now ravaging parts of West Africa is the largest on record. In fact, West Africa has seen more cases of the disease in 2014 than have been seen in all other ...

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, West Africa is facing a new outbreak of Ebola. A global emergency stockpile of Ebola vaccine is being deployed to curb the epidemic, although experts are confident ...

The 2014-16 Ebola outbreak in West Africa killed more than 11,000 people, the disease’s largest death toll. Ebola was discovered in 1976 in simultaneous outbreaks in South Sudan and Congo ...

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

On 18 February, Byegarazo and seven others walked out of treatment centers in Kampala and Mbale, a city in Eastern Uganda, ...

Malaria season begins this month in a large part of Africa KAMPALA, Uganda -- Malaria season begins ... That support is part of the $600 million in health assistance the west African country received ...

North West just made about as close to a public statement about her parents’ divorce as she can. The 11-year-old shared a new post on Instagram, and we agree with the follower who said ...

March 5, 2025 • President Trump defended his humanitarian aid cuts to countries around the globe, including one nation he joked "nobody has ever heard of." Here are some facts about the African ...

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 ...

Officials from US and Israel say governments of Sudan, Somalia and Somaliland have been asked to take in people of Gaza.