Tag: Ebola

Uganda has had several outbreaks of the Ebola virus starting in 2000 – 2001 (Sudan ebolavirus), 2007–2008 (Bundibugyo ebolavirus), 2011 (Sudan ebolavirus), 2012 (Sudan ebolavirus), 2012–2013 (Sudan ebolavirus), 2018–2020 (Zaire ...

Dr Colleb Tumuguzu a Doctor on the frontlines treating Ebola patients in Mubende hospital contracted the deadly virus. He then battled the disease, watching his colleagues die off one after ...

Members of the Inter-Religious Council of Uganda-IRCU and their counterparts of the Democratic Republic of Congo-DRC have agreed to jointly work together in the fight against Ebola and other epidemics.  ...

In a press release issued by the British High Commission in Kampala, United Kingdom is to provide Shs 9.3 billion (£2.2m) to international agencies involved in the fight against the ...

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has announced a total lockdown in the districts of Mubende and Kasanda effective immediately. In a live televised address, Museveni said some Ebola victims were escaping ...

Health workers and local leaders are worried about the numerous porous and illegal border entries in West Nile which could hinder prevention measures against Ebola. Last month, the Ministry of ...

One of the six health workers who contracted Ebola has passed this morning at Fort Portal Regional Referral Hospital.  The death has been confirmed by Dr Alex Adaku, the Hospital ...

Kasangati residents are on edge following the death of a patient at Kasangati Health Centre IV who presented with ebola-like symptoms. According to Dr Ssejibwa Peter, the deceased is a ...

The World Health Organization -WHO  has urged health workers in Uganda not to consider using Ebola therapeutic medicines used to treat patients in the neighboring DR Congo, saying these will ...

As 34 Medical workers on the ebola frontlines at Mubende regional referral hospital went on strike on Monday. We managed to get through to one of them to get an ...