Ebola is rare, deadly and has multiple variants. There is a vaccine for the Zaire type. Now, trials for another strain are ...

A nurse in Uganda has died of Ebola in the first recorded fatality since the country’s last outbreak of the disease ended in ...

Ugandan authorities have begun a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola that has killed one person in ...

I was head of the U.S. Agency for International Development from 1999 to 2001. Before that, I lived and worked in East Africa ...

WHO reported Wednesday that a suspected outbreak of Marburg disease has claimed eight lives in a remote region of northern Tanzania.

Uganda’s Ministry of Health has confirmed an Ebola outbreak in the capital, Kampala, following the death of a 32-year-old ...

Eight people have died in ... have already contracted the virus. The World Health Organisation said it has offered Tanzania its full assistance Credit: GETTY IMAGES The geographic spread of ...

Tracing contacts is key to stemming the spread of Ebola, which manifests as a viral hemorrhagic fever. A trial vaccine known as rVSV-ZEBOV, used to vaccinate 3,000 people at risk of infection ...

Staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been told to halt all communication with the World Health ...

In spite of the order, they will keep their facilities open for as long as they can, according to three people with direct ..