Ebola Stories
Over the past decade, mpox, Marburg, and Ebola have collectively claimed tens of thousands of lives and cost billions of dollars in containment and mi...
Health MInister Aceng said 265 contacts remained under "strict quarantine and monitoring" in the capital Kampala, as well as in Jinja and Mbale - two...
Screenings have been intensified at major border crossings, including Busia, Malaba, and Suam, as well as at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
Uganda's health ministry said in a statement late on Monday that of the nine confirmed cases one person had died, seven were being treated in a hospit...
The trial, which uses a vaccine provided by the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), is seen as a critical step in controlling the outbreak.
The trial will target those at the highest risk of infection, including individuals who have had close contact with confirmed or deceased Ebola patien...
Uganda this week confirmed an outbreak of the Ebola virus in the capital Kampala with the first confirmed patient dying from it.
The patient, a male nurse at the Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala, had initially sought treatment at various facilities, including Mulago,...
Francois Moreillon, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Congo, told Reuters that a medicine warehouse had been looted.
The vaccine was deployed during the 2018-2020 Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo under emergency use authorisation.
Moral incentives could stem from the pride in ensuring that bushmeat is handled and sold in a way that reduces health risks.
Symptoms include high fever, severe headache vomiting, muscle aches and stomach aches, the ministry said.
