The rapid spread of a rare Ebola strain through Central and East Africa is testing local public health authorities and ...

Amid disease surveillance for the ongoing Ebola outbreak, Ugandan health authorities identified a case of Marburg virus ...

WHO's Emergency Use Listing of the Bundibugyo virus test enhances rapid diagnosis amid Africa's ongoing Ebola outbreak.

Scientists believe that the Bundibugyo virus persists in an animal species, occasionally spilling over into humans. But they ...

The White House this week requested Congress approve $1.4 billion to fight the Ebola outbreak.

Isolated by mountains along the East African Rift is Lake Tanganyika. More than 400 miles long, it is the continent's deepest lake and accounts for 16% of the world's available freshwater. Between 2 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The World Health Organization declares a global health emergency over an Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda, with ...

For decades after the identification of mpox in humans in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 1970, the disease was largely confined to the rural areas of Central and West Africa and thus did ...

Nigeria said Thursday it would shut schools and limit religious meetings in its economic hub Lagos and capital Abuja, while South Africa, the continent's most industrialised economy, slashed a key ...

Weak surveillance and climate change could allow deadly hantaviruses to spread unnoticed across African countries, raising the risk of future outbreaks.