There are two licensed Ebola vaccines, but they protect against Ebola Zaire viruses. The Ugandan outbreak involves a different species of the virus, Ebola Sudan. The IAVI vaccine is made following ...

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

Ebola first emerged in 1976 in outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire) and South Sudan (then Sudan), and tracked to bush-meat. Results from virus sequencing of samples from the ...

The strain of Ebola that has circulated in West Africa for the last year ... infected three cynomolgus macaques with the 1976 Mayinga strain and another three with the 2014 Makona strain. Both groups ...

Discovered in 1976, Ebola is rare, deadly and has multiple variants. There is a vaccine for the Zaire type. Now, trials for another strain are underway. https://p.dw ...

Ebola is a viral haemorrhagic fever first discovered in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Six species of the virus are known to cause disease in humans -- Zaire, Sudan, Bundibugyo ...

Scientists at the NIAID Vaccine Research Center have developed human monoclonal neutralizing antibodies for treatment and prevention of Ebola Zaire disease. Scientists at the NIAID Vaccine ...

said Uganda had also started a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola. Currently, there is no approved vaccine for that strain. The existing vaccination is for the Zaire ...