Uganda has confirmed an outbreak of Sudan virus disease, with the first case linked to a 32-year-old nurse in Kampala.

There are no approved vaccines or treatments for Sudan virus disease, which has a 40–70% fatality rate. To curb the ongoing outbreak, Uganda has deployed—under a clinical trial setting—a vaccine ...

Health authorities in Uganda say Ebola cases in the country have risen to nine while 265 other people are being monitored ...

The Ministry of Health has reported six new cases of Ebola virus disease as the country struggles to contain the new outbreak which was first announced on January 30th, 2025. In a statement ...

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was releasing an additional $2 million to ...

Breastfeeding is so important for child health that the World Health Organization (WHO) and Unicef recommend that babies ...

While the world has been focused on COVID-19, the fight against Ebola has continued. This virus, which first emerged in 1976, ...

The Ugandan health ministry has said the number of confirmed Ebola cases in the country has ... is being driven by the Sudan strain of the virus, for which there is no approved vaccine.

In a global first, Uganda's Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners on Feb.03 launched a first-ever clinical efficacy trial for a vaccine from Ebola from the Sudan ...

Scientists suspect that the first person infected in an Ebola outbreak acquires the virus through contact with an infected animal or eating its raw meat. Ebola was discovered in 1976 in two ...