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

Ebola is rare, deadly and has multiple variations. There is a vaccine for the Zaire type, now trials for another are underway ...

U.S. health officials are telling Americans to take precautions if they travel to Uganda because of an Ebola outbreak.

The minister for health, Ruth Aceng, has reassured the public that the country is under the attack of an Ebola outbreak from southern Sudan, adding that the government through the support of ...

The outbreak marks Uganda's eighth from an Ebola virus. The first confirmed case in the outbreak was a nurse at a hospital in the nation's capital, Kampala, who contracted Ebola on Jan. 20 or Jan. 21 ...

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The Sudan virus, a close relative of Ebola, has a fatality rate of 50% but remains poorly understood in terms of how it infects cells. Currently, no approved treatments exist. To address this critical ...

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For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...

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