An Ebola outbreak has been reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Experts share concerns about the highly fatal and contagious hemorrhagic fever.

Confirmation of Ebola in Uganda is the latest in a trend of outbreaks of viral hemorrhagic fevers in the East African region. Tanzania declared an outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg disease earlier ...

It comes as a deadly eye-bleeding disease related to Ebola spreads through neighbouring Tanzania, killing nine people so far. The 12 Ebola cases were reported in the Boyenge health area ...

In addition to the possible Ebola outbreak, there is an outbreak of Marburg fever, caused by a related virus, in Tanzania, which shares a border with eastern DRC. Global health experts said ...

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

Meanwhile, in neighbouring Tanzania, nine people have died after testing positive for the Marburg virus, a highly infectious cousin of Ebola. The patient in Uganda, a 32-year-old male nurse ...

Health workers wearing protective gear at an Ebola treatment centre. Uganda confirmed nine Ebola cases on February 10, 2025, following an outbreak first announced on January 30, 2025. Uganda’s ...

It also comes as Tanzania, on Uganda’s southern border, is fighting to control an outbreak of Marburg fever, a viral disease that causes illness like Ebola and that has a similarly high case ...

Trump issued executive orders that withdrew the US from WHO and halted USAID funding, which also keeps people uninformed of ...

AP Tanzania declared an outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg disease earlier this month, and in December Rwanda announced that its own outbreak of Marburg was over. The ongoing Marburg outbreak in ...