#Outbreak

The Trump administration has turned inward in response to the Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda, with increasingly isolationist policies that are alarming and disappointing infectious disease experts.…

Robert Redfield, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). warned Friday that the current Ebola outbreak could become the second-largest spread of this virus in history.…

Politicized public health agencies also make it harder to hold officials accountable

WHO Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is visiting Bunia in the DRC, the epicentre of the Ebola outbreak.

World Health Organization head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is in eastern Congo’s Bunia, where a rare type of Ebola is spreading faster than the response.

The anti-vaccine crowd spent years trying to rebrand measles as a harmless childhood inconvenience. Texas just supplied the hospital records. In a study published yesterday in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly…

The deadly disease was identified half a century ago in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is unacceptable that it continues to take lives. The deadly disease was identified half a century ago in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.…

Cases in central Africa are rising at an alarming pace, but lessons from past epidemics could help to contain the current spread of infection.…

Here’s where Ebola is spreading, how it infects humans and what the Bundibugyo type of the virus does to the body.

The U.S. response to the Ebola outbreak is drawing new warnings from public health experts about the impact of the Trump administration's global health policies, including the dismantlement of USAID and its withdrawal from the World Health Organization.…

Bundibugyo strain, which has no vaccine, has so far killed 88 and may have been spreading undetected for three weeks

Restrictions apply to anyone without an American passport who visited the region in the last three weeks and will last for at least 30 days

Public urged to follow preventive measures following a major outbreak in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo

The World Health Organization now says there are hundreds of suspected cases and 139 deaths in the burgeoning epidemic

A major new epidemic is emerging in the Democratic Republic of Congo – here’s what you need to know

‘Lullaby mothers’, who cared for children orphaned or separated from their parents, will not be allowed to volunteer during this outbreak

The new case brings the total number of infections linked to the outbreak on the MV Hondius up to 12

Halting the virus can only be done by gaining trust in a country where suspicion and mistrust can be commonplace

New jab being developed by the Oxford Vaccine Group uses same technology behind the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine

Driver who transported victim among those who have fallen ill as suspected death toll hits 177