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 say the outbreak will worsen as a result of President Donald Trump's funding freeze. Americans traveling to Uganda are urged to take precautions.

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 ...

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 ...

Uganda has launched a clinical trial for a vaccine targeting the Sudan strain of Ebola following a recent outbreak that has claimed the life of a nurse and affected two others, reports AP.

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

Marburg belongs to the same family of illnesses as Ebola and can cause death in up ... but rehydration treatment to alleviate symptoms can improve the chances of survival. Researchers are racing ...

Tanzania’s president has confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus disease (MVD), a highly infectious virus like Ebola that can be fatal in up to 88 per cent of cases without treatment.

Having treated patients with Ebola in Guinea, I knew these symptoms ... facilitated the delivery of a similar treatment from Canada to my hospital, even though the global supply was said to ...

Often compared to Ebola, this highly contagious haemorrhagic ... Currently, there is no established cure for the disease, although experimental vaccines and drugs are under development.