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Uganda Ebola Outbreak
Medical lab assistant Mellon Kyomugisha, who said she was the first to examine the first confirmed Ebola victim when he came to St. Florence Clinic with malaria, takes a blood sample from a toddler at the clinic in Madudu, near Mubende, in Uganda, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. In this remote Ugandan community facing its first Ebola outbreak, testing trouble has added to the challenges with symptoms of the Sudan strain of Ebola now circulating being similar to malaria, underscoring the pitfalls health workers face in their response. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)
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‘Africa on its own’: Little help in epidemics, says official

Africa must plan to respond effectively to disease outbreaks without international help, a top public health official said Wednesday, warning that the continent of 1.3 billion people is “on its own” during pandemics. As assistance often never materializes, African nations must plug gaps in their response to outbreaks as such as Ebola in Uganda, said Ahmed […]

OCT. 12, 2022

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National Stockpile
FILE - Workers carry boxes at a Strategic National Stockpile warehouse in Oklahoma City, Okla., April 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
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Remember the shortage of medical gowns during COVID? Feds spending $350 million for stockpile

Six U.S. companies will spend at least $350 million to manufacture medical gowns to store in the Strategic National Stockpile, years after doctors and nurses working in hospitals found themselves without the equipment while COVID-19 raged. The purchase of the gowns is one of the final steps toward shoring up the personal protective equipment in […]

APRIL 7, 2020

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Health authorities in the central Chinese city of Wuhan are reporting the first death from a new type of coronavirus that has stirred fears of an outbreak similar to that of the deadly SARS virus more than a decade ago

Health authorities in a central Chinese city on Saturday reported the country’s first death from a new type of coronavirus, as the government braced for the Lunar New Year travel boom amid concerns over a possible outbreak similar to that of the SARS virus in the early 2000s. The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission said seven […]

JAN. 11, 2020

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Local health authorities say the number of cases of a newly diagnosed respiratory illness linked to a food market in central China has risen to 44

The number of cases of a new type of viral pneumonia linked to a food market in central China has risen to 44, local health authorities said Friday, in an outbreak awakening fearful memories of the 2002-2003 SARS epidemic. Of those cases diagnosed since December, 11 were listed as critical, the Wuhan city health commission […]

JAN. 3, 2020

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Deadly Ebola Virus Found in Three of Seven Monkeys

The deadly human ebola virus has been found in three of seven dead laboratory monkeys checked so far out of a larger shipment to a Virginia research firm from the Philippines, federal health officials said Friday. The firm, Hazelton Research Products of Reston, Va. got about 100 monkeys in October. Officials announced Thursday that the […]

DEC. 2, 1989

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