Ebola

A four-year-old child has become the second fatality in Uganda’s ongoing Ebola outbreak, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed on Saturday. The outbreak, which was declared in late January, has now resulted in 10 confirmed…

Uganda has discharged the last eight patients who were recovering from an Ebola outbreak declared last month, health authorities reported . The World Health Organization described the recoveries as a milestone and reflected Uganda’s…

Authorities in Sierra Leone on Thursday started a nationwide rollout of the single-dose Ebola vaccine, the first such campaign in West Africa where a deadly outbreak 10 years ago resulted in the death of thousands. The 2014 Ebola…

African top public health body said says that the Ebola outbreak in Uganda was coming under control, as it had been 39 days since the last confirmed case of the virus had been reported in the country. Officials first confirmed the outbreak…

Ebola vaccines are expected to arrive soon in Uganda, the head of emergency operations for WHO Africa says progress is being made. Since the outbreak was declared on 20th September, the virus has spread across the country disrupting the…

The World Health Organization (WHO) has deployed the first doses of candidate vaccines against the Sudan Ebola virus to Uganda and they are expected to arrive in the coming days. A press statement by the global health body on Thursday…

The European Union has mobilised 200,000 euros to help the Ugandan Red Cross in the face of a fresh Ebola outbreak which has already left more than 40 people dead in the country, the European Commission announced in a statement. The EU…

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control says it has conducted a rapid risk assessment to guide the country’s preparedness in case of an outbreak of Ebola in the country. The NCDC said this risk assessment was conducted following the…

Ebola infections have risen to across districts in Uganda, bringing the cumulative number of confirmed and suspected deaths to 23, health authorities in the east African country said. Uganda declared an Ebola outbreak last Tuesday after…

Three more Ebola patients have died in Uganda, the health ministry says, bringing the total death toll to four. This comes days after authorities confirmed an outbreak. "In the last 24 hours, three new deaths have been recorded," the…