KAMPALA, May 15 (Reuters) - Uganda on Friday confirmed an ‌outbreak of the highly infectious Ebola virus disease, the ⁠health ministry said, adding that the outbreak involves the Bundibugyo strain.

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola disease outbreak in Congo and Uganda a public health emergency of international concern. Africa’s top public health body ...

Kuppalli is an infectious diseases physician in Dallas. She has extensive experience with Covid-19, mpox, and Ebola, including working for the World Health Organization. The reports emerging this week ...

Recent viral outbreaks on two separate cruise ships have drawn public attention. Norovirus outbreaks on cruises account for only 1% of all reported cases, according to the CDC. The recent hantavirus ...

A hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship has resulted in five confirmed and three suspected cases. The outbreak is believed to have started with a passenger who was infected before ...

An outbreak of hantavirus aboard the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius has so far sickened eight people, killing three of them. Five of these cases are confirmed and three are suspected, and as information ...

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The fatal outbreak of hantavirus on a cruise ship is a tragic case study in how pathogens in this mysterious family of viruses spread among people. Little is known about the mechanisms of ...

Two Dutch people and a German national have died after a suspected hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius, a Dutch cruise ship run by Oceanwide Expeditions, according to the World Health Organization ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported a salmonella outbreak in more than a dozen states. Worse, the outbreak appears to be linked to a strain of the bacterium that may be ...

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - The South Carolina Department of Public Health (DPH) is declaring a formal end to the Upstate measles outbreak that totaled 997 cases from October 2025 through March ...

The FDA is continuing to investigate an outbreak of Salmonella Newport infections that has sickened at least 68 people. The outbreak was first reported by the Food and Drug Administration on Feb. 25.