NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Jeremy Konyndyk, who oversaw USAID's response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak, if cuts to the agency leave the U.S. more vulnerable to infectious disease.

A four-year-old has been identified as the second patient to die from the Ebola virus in Uganda after a recent outbreak. The ...

Ebola in Uganda raising concerns of spreading outbreak - There are no approved vaccines for the Sudan strain of Ebola that's ...

Uganda's Ebola outbreak takes a concerning turn with a child's death, highlighting surveillance challenges and funding issues ...

KAMPALA, Uganda — Uganda discharged on Tuesday the last eight patients who recovered from Ebola , health authorities reported ...

The law enforcement sources revealed that the patients had not been officially diagnosed with Ebola. Contrary to the initial panic, it was discovered that the two patients had probably contracted ...

After a new frog species was discovered in Ecuador, it wasa named after Academy Award-winning Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio, according to a report in The Telegraph. Ecuador's new frog species ...

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has announced the allocation of an additional $2 million to strengthen Uganda's response to an ongoing Ebola outbreak. The move ...

On Jan. 30, the WHO released 1 million U.S. dollars and mobilized trial vaccines to support Uganda's national health authorities to contain and end the new wave of Ebola outbreak. Uganda last ...

Ebola was discovered in 1976 in two simultaneous outbreaks in South Sudan and Congo, where it occurred in a village near the Ebola River, after which the disease is named.