In the shadows of Python Cave, Uganda, a leopard leaps from a guano mound—formed by bat excrement—and sinks its teeth into a ...

Sligo man exits the crisis-hit World Health Organisation after decades of fighting deadly diseases in some of the most dangerous places ...

President Museveni has launched a blistering attack on what he called "blind actors" among the Balaalo pastoralist community, accusing them of fueling Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreaks that have ...

As he marks two decades of service, Patrick Wokorach stands as a quiet hero in the world of public health-a man whose journey from a 60-day contract to 20 years of unwavering service is nothing short ...

Sierra Leoneans are worried by the increasing number of mpox cases and deaths that have been recorded in 2025.

The Mpox virus (formerly known as monkeypox) continues to make an unsettling return across several communities in West and Central African countries, with Sierra Leone becoming the latest ...

Uganda's borders have always been busy and vulnerable. Over the past decade, Ebola, COVID-19, leptospirosis, Marburg, measles ...

Eighteen years after the Ebola virus outbreak in this mountainous region, survivors in Bundibugyo District are still looking for ways to address some of the health complications they say ...

For the first time in Uganda's recent history, the health sector has received a record Shs 5.87 trillion allocation in the newly announced national budget for the financial year 2025/26.

Boom in infections in the West African nation is driven by the same viral strain that caused a global outbreak in 2022. A surge of mpox infections in the small African nation of Sierra Leone has ...

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Ivory Coast announced a cholera outbreak on Thursday, confirming seven deaths from the disease. Daniel Kouadio Ekra, head of the National Institute of Public Hygiene, ...

An important outcome of the devastating 2014 West African Ebola virus disease outbreak and the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic has been the growing promotion of conducting research during outbreaks of emerging ...