Public-health researcher James Baguma has studied the interactions between bats, which can carry the virus, and people in the region near the latest epidemic.

The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak linked to the Bundibugyo virus strain in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda a public health emergency of…

The outbreak is only the third caused by the rare Bundibugyo virus, for which there are no approved vaccines or therapeutics.

And how public health workers are trying to contain it

Cases set to increase, WHO warns, with infections appearing in urban centres and neighbouring Uganda

A major Ebola outbreak has been reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with a few confirmed cases in neighbouring Uganda.

A deadly outbreak of Ebola has once again risen. The disease has been recorded in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a country that has battled the disease more than any…