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Five doctors and an anaesthetic officer have been taken into isolation for treatment after contracting Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the line of duty, officials confirmed…

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has declared that there is no plan to impose restrictions in Ebola-prone areas in the central region because the viral disease is…

Reports indicate that a helicopter crashed on more than a dozen Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) soldiers in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),…

A total of twenty three confirmed and suspected Ebola deaths have been recorded in Uganda, barely a week after the disease broke out. As of Monday,…

Uganda said its Ebola caseload had jumped to 16 people while a further 18 people also likely had the disease, fueling fears of a spreading outbreak…

Health officials and civic leaders in Uganda have suspended operations of entertainment centres and limited the number of people attending burials and weddings in Mubende District…

Uganda has confirmed seven cases of Ebola including that of a 24-year-old man who died earlier this week and an additional seven deaths are being investigated…

Health authorities in Uganda are battling an outbreak of the skin condition scabies has affected about 250 people in villages adjoining the shores of Lake Lemwa. Head of…

Hundreds of placard-carrying protesters gathered outside the European Union offices in Uganda’s capital, Kampala, to express dissatisfaction over its call to the country to end a…

Health authorities in Uganda today declared an outbreak of Ebola after a case of the relatively rare Sudan strain was confirmed in Mubende district in the…