Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility of a ...

In earlier epidemics, such as the 2013–16 West African Ebola outbreak, sequencing data came in too slowly to track how the virus was changing as infections spread. But it quickly became clear that ...

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 the ...

Britain was today rocked by fresh Lassa fever fears after someone travelled to England while positive with the virus ... while they were unwell with the Ebola-like disease at the end of ...

The virus, which is endemic in parts of West Africa, particularly Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, is carried by a particular type of rodent, called the Mastomys rodent. The most common ...

Three new Ebola cases have been reported in Uganda, bringing the total to 12 since the outbreak began in late January, the African Union's health agency said Thursday. Ugandan authorities said in ...

But former and current USAID staff quickly told the Washington Post that Musk was wrong—the Ebola response remained sharply curtailed. And, as the Bulwark reported, Nicholas Enrich, the acting ...

As virus experts, we’re committed to research that uncovers pandemic threats and helps protect people from them. But we are concerned about how some scientists are experimenting with viruses in ...

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. Uganda’s last outbreak, discovered in ...

A four-year-old has been identified as the second patient to die from the Ebola virus in Uganda after a recent outbreak. The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Saturday night that Uganda’s ...

Rita Ninsiina, ebola survivor, leaves the isolation centre at Mulago Referral Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, on Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda) KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- A 4-year-old child ...