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

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 ...

In a global first, Uganda’s Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization, and other partners launched a first-ever vaccine trial for ...

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 ...

In a global first, Uganda’s Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners today launched a first-ever clinical efficacy trial for a vaccine from Ebola from the Sudan ...

Sudan virus (SUDV) can infect people to cause Sudan virus disease (SVD). Right now, an outbreak of SVD has been detected in ...

In what looks like a global first, Uganda’s Ministry of Health, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and other partners on ...

Uganda has begun clinical trials of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola virus, following an outbreak in the country ...

The confirmation of Ebola in Uganda is the latest in a series of outbreaks of viral hemorrhagic fevers in the east African ...

The first participants have been vaccinated with an investigational Ebola Sudan vaccine candidate provided by IAVI, a nonprofit scientific ...

Uganda with support from the World Health Organisation (WHO) has set up an 84-bed Ebola isolation and treatment facility in Kampala, the Ugandan capital, following the virus outbreak in the east ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has placed the country on high alert following the confirmation ...