Ebola virus

Rita Ninsiina, ebola survivor, leaving the isolation centre at Mulago Referral Hospital in Kampala, Uganda Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

A child dies of Ebola in Uganda, raising concern over disease surveillance in outbreak

The World Health Organization says a 4-year-old child has become the second person to die of Ebola in Uganda.
 
A health worker walks outside Mulago Referral Hospital in Kampala, Uganda Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

Uganda discharges the last Ebola patients. No new deaths from the contagious virus reported

 
A health worker prepares to administer a vial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola, during a trial, at Mulago Referral Hospital, in Kampala, Uganda Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

Ebola cases in Uganda rise to 9, while 265 others are being monitored under quarantine

 
A medical worker disinfects a tent used for suspected Ebola victims inside the Ebola isolation center of Madudu Health Center III, in the village of Madudu, in the Mubende district of Uganda Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda, File)

US officials advise travelers to be careful in Uganda because of Ebola

 
People walk outside the Mulago National Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, Thursday, Jan, 30, 2024, where a nurse had died of Ebola. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda )

Uganda begins Ebola vaccine trial after new outbreak kills a nurse and infects 2 other people

 

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A medical worker disinfects a tent used for suspected Ebola victims inside the Ebola isolation center of Madudu Health Center III, in the village of Madudu, in the Mubende district of Uganda Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda, File)

Ugandan health authorities are set to begin an Ebola vaccine trial after new outbreak kills a nurse

 
People walk outside the Mulago National Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, Thursday, Jan, 30, 2024, where a nurse had died of Ebola. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda )

Hospital nurse in Uganda dies in country’s first Ebola outbreak in 2 years

 
A health worker administers a single-dose of Ebola vaccine, to a man at the Christian Maternity Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Dennis Alfred Cole)

Sierra Leone begins nationwide rollout of Ebola vaccine a decade after deadly outbreak

 
FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2014 photo, a medical worker from the Infection Prevention and Control unit wearing full protective equipment carries a meal to an isolation tent housing a man being quarantined after coming into contact in Uganda with a carrier of the Marburg Virus, at the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Rwanda reports 8 deaths linked to Ebola-like Marburg virus days after it declared an outbreak

 
FILE - Nowa Paye, 9, is taken to an ambulance after showing signs of the Ebola infection in the village of Freeman Reserve, about 30 miles north of Monrovia, Liberia, on Sept. 30, 2014. Liberians gathered Wednesday, March 13, 2024 to commemorate a decade since the country was first hit by a devastating outbreak of Ebola that killed thousands in West Africa, adding to the region's economic and political troubles. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

A decade later, Liberians remember those who died in Ebola outbreak

 
FILE - Doctors wearing protective equipment pray together before they visit a patient who was in contact with an Ebola victim, in the isolation section of Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital in Entebbe, Uganda on Oct. 20, 2022. Uganda's latest outbreak of the Ebola virus is over, the government and the World Health Organization announced Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda, File)

WHO, officials say Uganda’s latest Ebola outbreak is over

 
FILE - A medical worker disinfects a tent used for suspected Ebola victims inside the Ebola isolation center of Madudu Health Center III, in the village of Madudu, in the Mubende district of Uganda Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. The head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday, Nov 16., 2022, that he expects the first doses of Ebola vaccine targeting the strain causing the current outbreak in Uganda to arrive in the country next week. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda, File)

WHO: 1st Ebola vaccines to arrive in Uganda next week

 
People load a coffin onto the back of a motorcycle to transport it to be used for the burial of an Ebola victim, in the town of Kassanda in Uganda Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. Ugandan health officials say they have controlled the spread of a strain of Ebola that has no proven vaccine, but there are pockets of resistance to health measures among some in rural communities where illiteracy is high and restrictions on movement and business activity have left many bitter. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

Uganda’s Ebola responders fret as some people fight measures

 
A teacher looks out the window of an empty classroom at the God's Will Primary school, which was closed for the day to mourn the death of a pupil from Ebola, in Kampala, Uganda Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022. Uganda's Ebola outbreak is under control and authorities are doing well to trace most contacts, a top public health official in Africa said Thursday, despite six cases of schoolchildren with the disease in three different schools in the capital, one of whom died. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

African health official: Ebola in Uganda is under control

 
FILE - Doctors wearing protective equipment pray together before they visit a patient who was in contact with an Ebola victim, in the isolation section of Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital in Entebbe, Uganda on Oct. 20, 2022. Six schoolchildren in Uganda's capital Kampala have tested positive for Ebola, the health minister said Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022, marking a serious escalation of the outbreak declared just over a month ago. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda, File)

Ebola infects 6 schoolkids in Uganda as contagion fear grows

 
Doctors wearing protective equipment pray together before they visit a patient who was in contact with an Ebola victim, in the isolation section of Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital in Entebbe, Uganda Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022. Uganda's Ebola outbreak is "rapidly evolving" a month after the disease was reported in the country, a top World Health Organization official said Thursday, describing a difficult situation for health workers on the ground. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

Uganda reports worrisome increase in Ebola cases in capital

 
Doctors disinfect themselves after visiting a patient who was in contact with an Ebola victim, in the isolation section of Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital in Entebbe, Uganda Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022. Uganda's Ebola outbreak is "rapidly evolving" a month after the disease was reported in the country, a top World Health Organization official said Thursday, describing a difficult situation for health workers on the ground. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

WHO: Ugandan Ebola outbreak ‘rapidly evolving’ after 1 month

 
FILE - Doctors walk inside the Ebola isolation section of Mubende Regional Referral Hospital, in Mubende, Uganda on Sept. 29, 2022. Experimental Ebola vaccines will be deployed in Uganda in about "two weeks," a World Health Organization official said Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022 as the country carried out tough preventive measures including a lockdown in Ebola-hit areas. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda, File)

Uganda to deploy Ebola vaccine in 2 weeks, says WHO official

 

Uganda locks down 2 districts in bid to stem spread of Ebola

 
Medical lab assistant Mellon Kyomugisha, who said she was the first to examine the first confirmed Ebola victim when he came to St. Florence Clinic with malaria, takes a blood sample from a toddler at the clinic in Madudu, near Mubende, in Uganda, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. In this remote Ugandan community facing its first Ebola outbreak, testing trouble has added to the challenges with symptoms of the Sudan strain of Ebola now circulating being similar to malaria, underscoring the pitfalls health workers face in their response. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

‘Africa on its own': Little help in epidemics, says official

 
A medical attendant disinfects the rubber boots of a medical officer before leaving the Ebola isolation section of Mubende Regional Referral Hospital, in Mubende, Uganda Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. In this remote Ugandan community facing its first Ebola outbreak, testing trouble has added to the challenges with symptoms of the Sudan strain of Ebola now circulating being similar to malaria, underscoring the pitfalls health workers face in their response. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

US to begin screening travelers coming from Uganda for Ebola

 
Associated Press reporter Clarence Roy-Macaulay, who covered Sierra Leone for The Associated Press for nearly four decades, from the country's brutal civil war to the Ebola epidemic that killed thousands there, is seen in the capital Freetown on Nov. 15, 2004. Clarence Roy-Macaulay, who had been filing stories to the AP until about a week ago, died on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022 aged 85, his daughter said on Thursday. (Peter Anderson via AP)

Sierra Leone journalist Clarence Roy-Macaulay dies at 85

 
A medical attendant disinfects the rubber boots of a medical officer before leaving the Ebola isolation section of Mubende Regional Referral Hospital, in Mubende, Uganda Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. In this remote Ugandan community facing its first Ebola outbreak, testing trouble has added to the challenges with symptoms of the Sudan strain of Ebola now circulating being similar to malaria, underscoring the pitfalls health workers face in their response. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

CDC, WHO, Uganda to host regional meeting as Ebola spreads

 
A medical attendant stands by rubber boots hung up to dry after being disinfected, outside the Ebola isolation section of Mubende Regional Referral Hospital, in Mubende, Uganda, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. In this remote Ugandan community facing its first Ebola outbreak, testing trouble has added to the challenges with symptoms of the Sudan strain of Ebola now circulating being similar to malaria, underscoring the pitfalls health workers face in their response. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

Testing trouble adds to disorder in Uganda’s Ebola response

 

Uganda confirms 7 Ebola cases, races to halt outbreak

 
FILE - An Ebola victim is put to rest at the Muslim cemetery in Beni, in Congo, on July 14, 2019. Health authorities in neighbouring Uganda on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022 reported that a man who died a day earlier had tested positive for the virus that causes Ebola and referred to a potential new outbreak. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

Uganda confirms at least 1 case of Ebola hemorrhagic fever

 
FILE - Health workers wearing protective suits tend to to an Ebola victim kept in an isolation tent in Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Saturday, July 13, 2019. A new case of the Ebola virus has been confirmed in Congo’s eastern Beni city, Congo’s ministry of health announced Monday, Aug. 22, 2022, saying it is linked to a previous outbreak. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

Congo reports new Ebola case linked to previous outbreak

 
FILE - A man receives the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at Jabra Hospital in Khartoum, Sudan, Thursday, March 11, 2021. A new philanthropic project hopes to invest $100 million in up to 10 countries mostly in Africa by 2030 to support up to 200,000 community health workers. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali, File)

Nonprofits launch $100M plan to support local health workers

 

World Health Organization declares Marburg outbreak in Ghana

 
FILE - Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, the first woman to lead the the World Health Organization's regional Africa office, joins Congo's health minister Gilbert Mokoki on a field trip in Brazzaville, Congo, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. The number of outbreaks of diseases that jumped from animals to humans in Africa has jumped by more than 60% in the last decade, the World Health Organization said in a statement Thursday, July 14, 2022, a worrying sign the planet could face increased animal-borne diseases like monkeypox, Ebola and coronavirus in the future. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File)

Outbreaks from animals in Africa surge by 60% in last decade

 

WHO: Ghana reports 2 suspected cases of Marburg virus

 
FILE - This 1997 image provided by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the right arm and torso of a patient, whose skin displayed a number of lesions due to what had been an active case of monkeypox. As health authorities in Europe and elsewhere roll out vaccines and drugs to stamp out the biggest monkeypox outbreak beyond Africa, in 2022, some doctors are acknowledging an ugly reality: The resources to slow the disease's spread have long been available, just not to the Africans who have dealt with it for decades. (CDC via AP, File)

Africans see inequity in monkeypox response elsewhere

 

Ebola case confirmed in Congo’s west Equateur province

 
Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, the first woman to lead the the World Health Organization's regional Africa office, sits in her office in Brazzaville, Congo, Tuesday Feb. 8, 2022. As WHO Africa chief, Moeti initiates emergency responses to health crises in 47 of the continent’s 54 countries and recommends health policies. Moeti is facing her toughest challenge: helping Africa respond to the coronavirus pandemic and urging better consideration of its people, especially women. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

WHO Africa’s 1st woman leader helps continent fight COVID

 
Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, the first woman to lead the the World Health Organization's regional Africa office, sits in her office in Brazzaville, Congo, Tuesday Feb. 8, 2022. As WHO Africa chief, Moeti initiates emergency responses to health crises in 47 of the continent’s 54 countries and recommends health policies. Moeti is facing her toughest challenge: helping Africa respond to the coronavirus pandemic and urging better consideration of its people, especially women. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

WHO Africa’s 1st woman leader helps continent fight COVID

 
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