Tanzania is a popular holiday destination, worth-renowned for its incredible safaris, Mount Kilimanjaro and the flawless ...

A CDC program tests wastewater from airplanes, looking for pathogens that may have hitched a ride with passengers on long-haul international flights.

Tanzania today declared the end of Marburg virus disease outbreak after recording no new cases over 42 days since the death of the last confirmed case on 28 January 2025.The outbreak, in which two ...

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

The White House is pulling President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dave ...

WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) has donated essential medical equipment worth $30,000 (78m/-) to help combat the Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) outbreak in Kagera Region. In a statement, WHO’s ...

The health clinic where Alice Okwirry collects her HIV medication in Kenya's capital Nairobi has been rationing supplies of ...

It has been five years since the world was blown into the tumult of a lethal pandemic. Back then, deserted streets and ...

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

Africa’s top public health agency says that Uganda’s Ebola caseload increased to 14 in the last week with a new cluster ...

Scientists suspect the first person infected with Ebola in an outbreak acquired the virus through contact with ... fevers in ...

This is the latest viral epidemic to hit the East African region in the past year, following outbreaks of Marburg virus and mpox diseases among others. The World Health Organisation (WHO ...