Uganda's Ministry of Health together with its partners, the World Health Organization (WHO) Country Office and, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), have in recent weeks ...

According to a new study, an experiment on monkeys has shown that Ebola can be cured with just a pill. First discovered in ...

New research this month shows that the experimental antiviral obeldesivir prevented up to 100% of deaths in monkeys infected ...

Influenza virus is an infectious agent belonging to the virus family Orthomyxoviridae that causes a respiratory tract infection (influenza or 'flu') in vertebrates. There are three main species ...

The team infected rhesus and cynomolgus macaques with a high dose of the Makona variant of the Ebola virus. A day after ...

At the time, Wolfgang Petersen’s 'Outbreak' was too farfetched to seem true. Now, it just seems eerily prescient.

Scientists suspect the first person infected with Ebola in an outbreak acquired the virus through contact with an infected animal or eating its raw meat. Ugandan officials are still investigating ...

People usually become infected with Lassa virus through exposure to food or household items contaminated with urine or faeces of infected rats – present in some West African countries where the ...

Scientists suspect the first person infected with Ebola in an outbreak acquired the virus through contact with an infected animal or eating its raw meat. Ugandan officials are still investigating ...