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

Mulago's Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU) is managing four active cases--two male children and two female adults--while nine suspected cases remain under observation.Mbale Regional Referral Hospital has ...

Ugandan authorities have begun a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola that has killed one person in ...

Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital has implemented strict measures, including limiting caretakers per patient to reduce congestion and minimise the risk of transmission.

Ugandan officials are preparing to deploy a trial vaccine as part of efforts to stem an outbreak of Ebola in the capital, ...

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 ...

In October 2020, the FDA approved its first treatment for Ebola, called Inmazeb, which targets one of four Ebola strains that cause illness in people, Zaire ebolavirus. Another treatment for the ...

Ebola does not have a cure, but treatments approved by the FDA exist. Doctors use monoclonal antibodies, which are fine-tuned to specifically recognize and neutralize Ebola virus particles and ...

There are two licensed Ebola vaccines, but they protect against ... Another similar sized treatment center is being set up by the nonprofit group Doctors Without Borders and the Ugandan government ...

Ebola occurs when someone is infected with orthoebolavirus ... medicine to treat symptoms and any necessary treatment for infections, according to the CDC. Melissa Rudy is senior health editor ...

Uganda has confirmed an outbreak of the Ebola virus in the capital Kampala, the country's ninth outbreak since it recorded its first viral disease infection in 2000. The first confirmed patient, a ...