Prior to 2014, the largest outbreak of Ebola virus disease on record, caused by Sudan ebolavirus, resulted in 425 cases and 224 deaths in Uganda. There are several reasons for the scope and ...
By cutting trees in response to international demand for tobacco, farmers induced wildlife to start eating virus-laden bat ...
Similarly, the outbreak of Ebola has been linked to deforestation in Guinea. And, earlier this month in Uganda, scientists looking at virus spillovers that can cause pandemics found the disappearance ...
Viruses that cause mild sniffles in humans are devastating populations of chimpanzees and gorillas. In some ape communities, ...
THE West African Ebola outbreak is accelerating and could grow six times larger and infect as many as 20,000 people, the World Health Organisation warned on Thursday. The UN health agency unveiled a ...
Between 2012 and 2022 in Uganda, there were more than 5,000 suspected and confirmed cases of yellow fever. The Health ministry said in the first phase of the vaccination in six regions—specifically ...
A meeting convened by WHO in Africa in February, 2024, aimed to develop a protocol for assessing new treatments for filovirus diseases during outbreaks. Esther Nakkazi reports.
Epidemiology researchers are harnessing tools developed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, to untangle the origins of the 2020 Ebola virus disease outbreak ...
THE World Health Organisation today declared the ebola outbreak in West Africa to be an international public health emergency. WHO chief Dr Margaret Chan said the announcement was "a clear call for ...
Robinah Nabbanja pointed out that Uganda's market ... which is why there are often outbreaks of infectious diseases on its territory. As an example, Nabbanja cited the Ebola epidemic, which ...
Zika and other public health emergencies, effective communication of public health messages is crucial to control the spread of disease, maintain public trust, and encourage compliance with health ...
Effective public health communication is essential for Africa, confronted with numerous infectious disease epidemics and ...