Ethiopia confirms first outbreak of Marburg virus, closely related to Ebola. WHO warns of its high lethality and has ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Deadly diseases such as measles, tetanus and whooping cough are on the rise in Ethiopia's Tigray region after vaccination rates plunged during the civil war that broke out nearly ...

Ethiopia is confronting one of the most dangerous viruses known to medicine as the Marburg virus spreads through parts of the country, triggering rising infections, six confirmed deaths, and hundreds ...

Children in Ethiopia who received the antibiotic azithromycin as a method for controlling the contagious eye disease trachoma had a lower odds of death compared to children who did not receive the ...

Sleeping sickness wastes away people and livestock in Ethiopia. Drones are being used to fight the fly that spreads it. Drones Against Tsetse wants to bring down the wrath of a weaponized drone on the ...

Ethiopia has reported the first-ever outbreak of Marburg virus disease -- a rare and deadly viral haemorrhagic fever-- with lab reports confirming nine cases, said the World Health Organization (WHO).

On 5 September 2019, Ethiopia disseminates the results of a case report for Investment in prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs): a cost-benefit analysis including considerations on ...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Kuvin Center for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases a $5 million grant for research into visceral ...

Destruction to infrastructure in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia has left people without access to clean water and increased the risk of fatal diseases. After months of conflict between the ...

Deadly diseases such as measles, tetanus and whooping cough are on the rise in Ethiopia's Tigray region after vaccination rates plunged during the civil war that broke out nearly two years ago, ...