Press Release - On April 26, 2025, Uganda's Minister of Health, Dr Jane Ruth Aceng Ocero, announced the end of Uganda's eighth Ebola outbreak.

The U.S. is nearing the total seen in 2019, of which there were 1,274 confirmed infections across the country over the course of a year, CDC data shows. MORE: Amid growing Texas outbreak ...

Like many other CDC staff, her job was not flashy. “That’s the nature of public health,” she said. “I don’t necessarily love spotlights … The whole point is to be silent in the ...

Uganda has faced several infectious disease outbreaks in recent years, including COVID-19 and the Sudan strain of the Ebola virus. The donation comes as the country is currently responding to an ...

Prior to 2014, the largest outbreak of Ebola virus disease on record, caused by Sudan ebolavirus, resulted in 425 cases and 224 deaths in Uganda. There are several reasons for the scope and ...

That’s down 27% from the 110,000 in 2023.The CDC has been collecting comparable data for 45 years. The previous largest one-year drop was 4% in 2018, according to the agency’s National Center ...

Tobacco farming in Uganda has resulted in the loss of trees key to the diets of chimpanzees and baboons, increasing ...

The Bank of Uganda has bought $1.5 billion from the market this fiscal year and used currency swaps to rebuild its foreign-exchange reserves after they were drained by an aid freeze and debt ...

Uganda People's Congress (UPC) party president Jimmy Akena Obote has thrown down the gauntlet to the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) administration, urging them to relinquish power and ...