The ARTIC 2.0 project will expand use of a low-cost, real-time genome sequencing technique used to detect COVID-19 variants to conduct surveillance on a wider variety of pathogens.
Patients who received the rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine were 1.7 times less likely to die than their unvaccinated peers.
Ugandan health officials will maintain Ebola surveillance and continue risk communications and patient follow-up.
Mali, the 20th African country to introduce malaria vaccination, will use a hybrid approach to boost protection during the high-risk part of the season.
Cases are declining in some hot spot countries, as officials warns that nations outside Africa are still reporting imported cases.
Suspected case-patients, one of them a woman who became ill while pregnant, have links to the western part of Uganda.
The newly confirmed cases are linked to a 4-year-old boy who died from his Ebola infection last week.
The death of a mother and her newborn baby are connected to a recent case and raise more concerns about undetected transmission.
The new case raises the death toll to 2 and the case count to 10 in this outbreak.
In the first of the 2 outbreaks, affected children had contact with bats. Further investigations are under way for both events.
