Uganda has discharged eight people after they recovered from Ebola although at least 265 contacts remain under quarantine, ...

Burundi is withdrawing its forces from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where they had been fighting against M23 rebels, ...

Uganda discharged on Tuesday the last eight patients who recovered from Ebola, health authorities reported, and there were no other positive cases in the outbreak declared last month.

Here’s a look at Ebola, a virus with a high fatality rate that was first identified in Africa in 1976. Facts Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a disease caused by one of five different Ebola viruses. Four of ...

Among the most affected are South Sudan, Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Liberia, Sudan, Uganda, and ...

An offensive by M23 fighters is disrupting health services and displacing people in a region already beset by health ...

The escalating violence in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has affected testing for the infectious ... 2025 from the European Commission - while also lamenting recent outbreak of Ebola in ...

A laboratory holding Ebola and other dangerous pathogens in the eastern DR Congo city of Goma—which has been seized by the ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — The Rwanda-backed rebels who captured eastern ... lab in Goma involved in the control and surveillance of infectious diseases such as Ebola. The disruption at the National Institute ...

A clinical trial of a potentially effective vaccine against Sudan Virus Disease (SVD) has started in Uganda after the country’s Health Ministry confirmed a Sudan Ebola outbreak last week.

A trial vaccine known as rVSV-ZEBOV, used to vaccinate 3,000 people at risk of infection during an outbreak of the Zaire strain of Ebola in eastern Congo between 2018 and 2020, proved effective in ...