Health & Science

African health ministers will meet virtually on Oct. 28 as an Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus continues to spread, with cases reported...

Kenya has confirmed four additional cases of Ebola, including three health workers who treated the country’s first patient, bringing the total number of confirmed...

Kenya has confirmed its first case of Ebola after a Kenyan citizen who had been living in the Democratic Republic of Congo tested positive...

American scientist Karl Deisseroth and German scientists Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries...

The East African Community is seeking about $45 million to strengthen the region's ability to detect and respond to Ebola and other high-consequence infectious...

Tanzania has urged the East African Community (EAC) to overhaul its proposed regional seed law, warning that efforts to create a common seed market...

There is a cognitive bias called “the curse of knowledge” (sometimes also called “the curse of expertise”). It happens when you incorrectly assume that...

Two employees at Frankfurt Airport have died after contracting malaria in a rare outbreak that health authorities believe was caused by an infected mosquito...

Burundi has interrupted transmission of circulating polio-virus type 2 after more than three years of outbreak response, the World Health Organisation said, marking a...

More than 2,000 people have died from confirmed Ebola infections in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with half of those deaths recorded in the...