In the wake of USAID’s shuttering by billionaire Elon Musk and President Donald Trump, those familiar with USAID’s work have ...

In her new book, A History of the World in Six Plagues, Edna Bonhomme describes a 2014 epidemic that decimated a neighborhood ...

A health scare unfolded in Manhattan on Sunday when two patients exhibiting symptoms resembling Ebola were transported from a CityMD urgent care facility on East 125th Street and Lexington Avenue to ...

U.S.-funded organizations helped keep dangerous pathogens in check around the world. Now many safeguards are gone, and ...

What does USAID do to prevent the spread of Ebola and other highly infectious and dangerous diseases overseas? So you’ve got ...

A Ugandan doctor vaccinates the contact of a patient who tested positive during the launch of the vaccination for the Sudan ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Jeremy Konyndyk, who oversaw USAID's response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak, if cuts to the agency leave the U.S. more vulnerable to infectious disease.

On Tuesday, the east African country confirmed it had recorded 10 cases of the Sudan Ebola strain of the often deadly virus including that of a nurse at Mulago National Referral Hospital ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Rita Ninsiina, ebola survivor, leaving the isolation centre at Mulago Referral Hospital in Kampala, Uganda ...

First, they fired the people who look after the nuclear bombs, then had to hurriedly find where they went and hire them back.

Kampala: A young child has died of the Ebola virus in Uganda, the second victim of an outbreak that was announced in late January, the health ministry said on Saturday. On Tuesday, the east ...

Uganda has had multiple Ebola outbreaks, including one in 2000 that killed hundreds. The 2014-16 Ebola outbreak in West Africa killed more than 11,000 people, the disease’s largest death toll.