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

Tanzania declares the end of the Marburg virus outbreak, but Africa continues to battle rising health crises, including ...

Sarah Naluyima is a dedicated community health worker at the forefront of Uganda’s Ebola outbreak response. For 15 years, Sarah has worked in her community, raising awareness about various health ...

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

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

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 ...

In Uganda’s ongoing fight against mpox and Ebola outbreaks, a few names have stood out for their exceptional dedication and resilience. Kemirembe Maria Goretti is one such individual. For 10 years, ...

Uganda has had eight Ebola outbreaks, with the latest happening in 2022 and the most recent one in January 2025 Thank you for reading Nation.Africa Show plans The Minister of Health, Dr Jane Ruth ...

Aid cuts by the United States are hurting Africa’s capacity to respond to disease outbreaks, the head of the continent's public health agency said Thursday, ahead of a meeting with regional health ...

The COVID-19 pandemic was supposed to decimate African populations, but that didn't happen. Why? Africa's low COVID-19 death rates defied doomsayers Experts cite experience in handling diseases like ...

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 ...