Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility of a ...

A decade after the worst of the virus’ 40 outbreaks killed 11,300 people, individuals who still bear its physical and mental ...

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 ...

New research this month shows that the experimental antiviral obeldesivir prevented up to 100% of deaths in monkeys infected ...

Africa’s top public health agency says that Uganda’s Ebola caseload increased to 14 in the last week with a new cluster emerging from a 4-year-old child who recently died of the infectious disease.

When I first spoke to Yap Boum II in January, 2025, he had recently become Deputy Incident Manager for the continental response to mpox with the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention ...

The pill protected 80 per cent of the cynomolgus macaques and 100 per cent of the rhesus macaques, which are biologically ...

More than 15,000 people in Africa have died of Ebola, all six strains combined, in the past half-century.

Can the continent walk the talk? **** The African Union has embarked on one of its most audacious health security missions: ...

Uganda has had five Ebola outbreaks since 2000, the second-highest in Africa after the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The team confirmed that the patient had died of the Sudan Virus Disease ...