Rwanda faced a Marburg virus outbreak among health workers in the capital Kigali, challenging the nation's health system and ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health alert about an outbreak in Uganda of deadly Sudan virus ...

THE head of the World Health Organization is urging health officials from various countries to encourage the United States to ...

The World Health Organization chief is asking global leaders to lean on Washington to reverse President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the U.N. health agency ...

A recent flurry of executive orders and surprise actions by the Trump administration have roiled WHO, the CDC and the international public health community.

Under a 1948 Joint Resolution of Congress, a US withdrawal from the WHO requires a one-year notice period. A spokesperson for ...

Tanzania’s president said Monday that one sample from a remote part of northern Tanzania tested positive for Marburg disease, a highly infectious virus which can be fatal in up to 88% of cases without ...

The disease, which is similar to Ebola, can spread between humans through bodily fluids and lead to hemorrhaging and death.

ARUSHA, Tanzania (AP ... President Samia Suluhu Hassan spoke in Dodoma, the capital, alongside World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. WHO was the first to ...

(AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File) (Ben Curtis/AP) January 20, 2025 at 9:47 am EST ARUSHA, Tanzania ... alongside World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A medical worker carries a meal to an isolation tent housing a man being quarantined after coming into ...