ebola

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAn Ebola outbreak that has plagued southern Congo in recent weeks is starting to be contained, the World Health Organization said Wednesday,…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe latest figures show the casualty rate has nearly doubled since last week — from 16 — and that the disease is…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe number of suspected Ebola cases in Congo’s southern Kasai province has more than doubled in a week since a new outbreak…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe announcement by the country’s health ministry came after the passage of 42 days without a single case of the disease. Read…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUganda’s Ebola caseload increased to 14 in the last week, Africa’s top public health agency said Thursday, with a new cluster emerging…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA 4-year-old child became the second person to die of Ebola in Uganda, the World Health Organization said Saturday, in a setback for health officials…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUganda has discharged the last eight patients who were recovering from an Ebola outbreak declared last month, health authorities reported on Tuesday….

Reading Time: < 1 minuteNine people were confirmed to have Ebola virus in Uganda and around 265 others are being monitored under quarantine, health authorities have…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUgandan authorities have begun a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola that has killed one person in…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA nurse in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, has died of Ebola, a health official said on Thursday, in the first recorded fatality since the last outbreak…