New research this month shows that the experimental antiviral obeldesivir prevented up to 100% of deaths in monkeys infected ...

Ugandan health officials are set to launch an Ebola vaccine trial in the capital Kampala to combat an ongoing outbreak, a top official said. Scientists are developing research protocols relating ...

Ugandan authorities on Monday began a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola that has killed one person in the outbreak declared last week. This is the first trial to assess ...

(UGANDA, 4 February 2025). 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 ...

First identified in 1976 and thought to have crossed over from bats, Ebola is a deadly viral disease spread through direct ...

A global emergency stockpile of Ebola vaccine is being deployed to curb the epidemic, although experts are confident that synergies in public health practises will ensure a rapid response to both.

Discovered in 1976, Ebola is rare, deadly and has multiple variations. There is a vaccine for the Zaire type, now trials for another are underway. Ebola damages blood vessels and causes severe ...

A vaccine was only widely approved in 2019, and while two intravenous antibody treatments improve outcomes, they require costly cold storage.

On 18 February, Byegarazo and seven others walked out of treatment centers in Kampala and Mbale, a city in Eastern Uganda, ...

The European Commission has approved Johnson & Johnson's Ebola vaccine, developed by its Janssen pharmaceuticals unit and Bavarian Nordic. This is the first major regulatory approval of the ...

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Africa’s top public health agency says that Uganda’s Ebola caseload increased to 14 in the last week with a new cluster emerging from a 4-year-old child who recently died of the infectious disease ...