Before it became the somewhat easy-to-mispronounce name of a rare type of Ebola virus, Bundibugyo is a mountainous district ...

The volunteers are thought to have contracted the virus during a humanitarian mission in DR Congo in March and are believed ...

Uganda said on Saturday that three new Ebola cases had been confirmed there, taking the total of confirmed cases to five.

The Sudanese embassy in Kampala has issued an advisory urging Sudanese citizens in the country to follow preventative measures and avoid unnecessary gatherings after Uganda confirmed imported Ebola ...

Bundibugyo ebolavirus has caused only two recognized outbreaks before. This is already the largest – and nothing in ...

The resurgence of Ebola in central Africa is prompting international concern, with health officials issuing urgent warnings ...

Meanwhile, an American doctor who was flown to Germany for treatment after contracting the virus in the Democratic Republic ...

The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda a public health emergency of international ...

India, May 24 -- The recent Ebola and hantavirus outbreaks demonstrate that the world is still vulnerable to rapidly ...

Kampala, Uganda — A nurse in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, has died of Ebola, a health official said Thursday, in the first recorded fatality since the last outbreak ended in 2023. Diana Atwine, ...

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