The WHO said strong public engagement, including campaigns to counter misinformation, has helped Uganda reduce fatalities ...

A 4-year-old child became the second person to die of Ebola in Uganda, the World Health Organization said Saturday, in a ...

In her new book 'A History of the World in Six Plagues,' Edna Bonhomme describes a 2014 epidemic that decimated a ...

Ebola-like virus found in person who travelled to the UK - Lassa fever does not spread easily between people and the overall ...

Dr. Herbert Luswata, president of the Uganda Medical Association, said that the Ebola response had been badly hampered by the ...

An investigation into Uganda's latest Ebola Sudan patient, a 4-year-old boy who recently died, revealed that his mother and ...

Africa’s top public health agency says that Uganda’s Ebola caseload increased to 14 in the last week with a new cluster ...

Uganda's Ebola virus caseload has risen to 12, up from 10, with two people who died early last month being considered ...

Lassa virus is usually contracted through exposure to food or household items that have been contaminated with the urine or ...

Gene Hackman’s wife died of hantavirus, but could his own death be linked to infection? New research suggests infections may ...

Lassa fever does not spread easily between people and the overall risk to the public is regarded as “very low”. The is an illness which is caused by the Lassa Virus. The virus, which is rat ...

Scientists suspect the first person infected with Ebola in an outbreak acquired the virus through contact with an infected animal or eating its raw meat. Ugandan officials are still investigating ...