From new avian or bird flu outbreaks on the Eastern Shore to a new Ebola outbreak in Uganda, we need the World Health ...

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

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Aid cuts by the United States are hurting Africa’s capacity to respond to disease outbreaks, the head ...

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

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

including the first victim of the outbreak. Ebola is now spreading in five of Uganda's 146 districts, it said. That includes ...

This is the sixth outbreak in Uganda of Sudan Ebola, a strain of the virus for which there is no approved vaccine. A vaccination trial for the strain was launched in the country earlier this month.

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 ...