Honourable Chair, Dr Jerome Walcott,Honourable Ministers, dear colleagues and friends,Good morning, happy New Year, and welcome once again to your WHO headquarters.As you know, for me 2024 ended with ...

A technical team from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation (CEPI) is in Rwanda as part of the preparations for a study on Marburg virus immunity among recovered patients.Led by Rwanda ...

The Sudan virus, a close relative of Ebola, has a fatality rate of 50% but remains poorly understood in terms of how it infects cells. Currently, no approved treatments exist. To address this critical ...

Humans have an exceptional ability to deal with viruses. In most cases, your immune system is able to fight an infection. On ...

The Trump administration is limiting the nation’s ability to respond to infectious disease as Marburg, Ebola rise ...

Ugandan authorities on Monday began 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, ...

It is the East African country's ninth outbreak since it recorded its first infection of the viral disease in 2000 ...

Uganda has confirmed an outbreak of the Ebola virus in the capital Kampala with the first confirmed patient dying from it on ...

A Ugandan health official says a nurse in the capital, Kampala, has died of Ebola, in the first recorded fatality since the last outbreak ended in 2023. Diana Atwine, permanent secretary of the health ...