A CDC program tests wastewater from airplanes, looking for pathogens that may have hitched a ride with passengers on long-haul international flights.

Aid cuts by the United States are hurting Africa's capacity to respond to disease outbreaks, the head of the continent's ...

Ebola in Uganda is the latest in a trend of outbreaks of viral hemorrhagic fevers in the east African region. Tanzania ...

Uganda last suffered an outbreak in late 2022 which killed 55 of the 143 people infected. That outbreak was declared over in 2023. Thank you for reading Nation.Africa Show plans A new cluster of Ebola ...

Ebola Spreads to the Capital. The Africa CDC noted that the new cluster has no direct epidemiological link to a previous ...

Tech billionaire Elon Musk said that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) accidentally cancelled Ebola prevention but then quickly restored it. Musk’s comments that come amid a raging ...

"CDC was given an exemption to coordinate ... to 40 percent of funding for sudden infectious disease outbreaks. “Uganda’s Ebola outbreak occurred on the same day as the foreign aid freeze.

Nairobi — The International Federation of the Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has launched an Emergency Appeal for 6 million Swiss francs to help contain Uganda's eighth Ebola outbreak ...

While the Trump administration issued a waiver to allow USAID to respond to an Ebola outbreak in Uganda last month, partner organizations were not promptly paid for their work, and USAID’s own ...

Ebola virus disease has always been known as a contagious and fatal disease. However, the recently reported recovery and discharge of all eight Ebola patients who got supportive treatment in ...

However, while the fate of the therapeutics study hangs in the balance, Dr Mosoka Fallah, the Acting Director for Science and Innovation at the CDC but is deployed in Uganda for the Ebola response ...

Uganda has discharged eight patients who have recovered from the Sudan strain of Ebola after they tested negative twice, health officials have said. The disease has killed one person and infected ...