Breastfeeding is so important for child health that the World Health Organization (WHO) and Unicef recommend that babies ...

Amid sixth outbreak of Sudan Ebola virus, Ugandans bemoan lack of official communication and fears for the economy.

Here’s a look at Ebola, a virus with a high fatality rate that was first identified in Africa in 1976. Facts Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a disease caused by one of five different Ebola viruses. Four of ...

President Donald Trump's freeze of U.S. foreign humanitarian aid and shuttering of the U.S. Agency for International ...

The university has been seeking approval to open the facility for 15 years, a delay that has led to other countries racing ahead of Japan to study pathogens and develop effective vaccines.

Among the most affected are South Sudan, Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Liberia, Sudan, Uganda, and ...

In confirmation hearings for his nomination as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, the focus was on ...

U.S. health officials advise Americans traveling to Uganda to take enhanced precautions due to an Ebola outbreak ...

Top officials at the World Health Organization met with diplomats from its member countries to map out a response to U.S ... of three candidate vaccines against the Sudan strain of the Ebola virus, in ...

Post-mortem samples confirmed the Sudan Ebola Virus Disease (strain),” the ... and its role as a major transit hub for neighboring countries, including South Sudan, the Democratic Republic ...

advising Nigerians to shelve travels to countries affected by the disease. It, however, assured that there was no case of Ebola in the country at present. The NCDC in the public health advisory ...