Uganda has kicked off a clinical trial of a vaccine against Ebola that killed one person in the outbreak declared last week.

The wife, child, and mother of a nurse who succumbed to the Sudan Ebola Virus last week have also tested positive for the ...

The Sudan virus, a close relative of Ebola, has a fatality rate of 50% but remains poorly understood in terms of how it ...

Kenya's Ministry of Health has intensified surveillance at all entry points across the country following an outbreak of Sudan ...

In a global first, Uganda's Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners today launched a first ever vaccine trial for Ebola from the Sudan species of the virus, and at ...

A new study finds that the Sudan virus, a deadly Ebola relative, binds to human NPC1 receptors with nine times greater ...

WHO and partners have immediately boosted their support to the Ugandan government's response to an outbreak of Sudan virus disease outbreak (SVD, part of the Ebola family), including by facilitating ...

Other outbreaks have occurred in Uganda (2000, 2012, 2022) and South Sudan. At least one person has died from Ebola virus in Kampala, the Ministry of Health has said. The outbreak of the Sudan ...

Uganda declared an outbreak of a relatively rare strain of the deadly hemorrhagic disease Ebola on Thursday. “An outbreak of ...

The index patient is a 32-year-old man who worked as a nurse at a hospital in Kampala and died after seeking care at multiple ...

This is a critical achievement toward better pandemic preparedness and saving lives when outbreaks occur,” said Dr. Tedros ...