Elizabeth Shackelford is senior policy director at Dartmouth College’s Dickey Center for International Understanding and a ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health alert about an outbreak in Uganda of deadly Sudan virus ...

The outbreak marks Uganda's eighth from an Ebola virus. The first confirmed case in the outbreak was a nurse at a hospital in the nation's capital, Kampala, who contracted Ebola on Jan. 20 or Jan. 21 ...

U.S. health officials are telling Americans to take precautions if they travel to Uganda because of an Ebola outbreak.

Ugandan authorities have begun a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola that has killed one person in the outbreak declared last week ...

Ugandan officials are preparing to deploy a trial vaccine as part of efforts to stem an outbreak of Ebola in the capital, ...

A nurse in Uganda has died of Ebola in the first recorded fatality since the country’s last outbreak of the disease ended in ...

Ugandan officials are investigating the source of the country’s latest Ebola outbreak following the death of a nurse, ...

The Marburg virus, a close relative of Ebola, is a deadly disease that causes haemorrhaging and has a high mortality rate. This virus has recently resurfaced in Tanzania, infecting nine people and ...

Marburg is a highly infectious viral disease that can cause haemorrhagic fever and is clinically similar to Ebola. The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has announced ...