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

the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), have in recent weeks intensified sensitisation of communities in the Ebola virus disease-affected districts. Thanks to support from ...

According to a new study, an experiment on monkeys has shown that Ebola can be cured with just a pill. First discovered in ...

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

Ebola is a deadly viral disease spread through direct contact with bodily fluids, causing severe bleeding and organ failure. Because outbreaks primarily affect sub-Saharan Africa, pharmaceutical ...

As always, what has happened serves as a prologue. After a lull in Ebola cases in West Africa in the early summer of 2014, the virus began to spread in the Liberian capital of Monrovia in July ...

Budget announcements are rarely memorable events in South Africa. But the statement on March 12th by Enoch Godongwana, the finance minister, was one of the most notable since the end of white rule ...

USAID’s role in Ebola containment has long been essential. During the 2014 West Africa outbreak—during which more than 11,000 people died—USAID oversaw training of local health-care workers ...

One such mega-city can be found in Africa. The place in question is Lagos in Nigeria, which is on track to become the largest city in the world by the end of the century, with a projected ...

Lassa fever, which kills around one in 100 people, is endemic Nigeria and several other countries in West Africa. Like Ebola, it is a viral haemorrhagic illness, which can lead to internal ...