In her new book 'A History of the World in Six Plagues,' Edna Bonhomme describes a 2014 epidemic that decimated a neighborhood — possibly foreshadowing what's to come.

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

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

For more than a decade, I have worked as a physician and public-health expert responding to infectious diseases around the ...

Uganda, according to the Ministry of Health, has had eight Ebola outbreaks with the latest happening in 2022 and the most recent one in January 2025 ...

The Africa CDC reported that there was no direct epidemiological link between the new cluster and another one accounting for ...

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At the time, Wolfgang Petersen’s 'Outbreak' was too farfetched to seem true. Now, it just seems eerily prescient.

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

The Africa CDC reported that there was no direct epidemiological link between the new cluster and another one accounting for nine previous Ebola cases, including the first victim of the outbreak.

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

Africa CDC official Ngashi Ngongo told reporters that since the last briefing on Thursday a new cluster with three confirmed ...