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Last month’s Ebola outbreak has now receded, but some former U.S. officials say that’s in part because of past investments in prevention efforts that helped position Uganda to respond — and ...
Uganda declared an end to its latest Ebola outbreak, three months after officials confirmed cases of the deadly disease. The health ministry said Uganda had gone more than 40 days without ...
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Ebola Virus Spreading in Nigeria The World Health Organization says there have been more than 100 cases between Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone within the last week.
An Ebola doctor-turned-patient had virus in his eyeball months after recovery. — -- For one Ebola doctor-turned-patient, being discharged with virus-free blood wasn't the end of his brush ...
Ugandan officials confirmed an Ebola outbreak in the east African country's capital, Kampala, last week. One nurse died on Jan. 29, and Ugandan authorities have confirmed two other Ebola cases as ...
The outbreak has been caused by a strain of the Ebola virus for which there are no approved vaccines or treatments. So far, it has caused four deaths, 12 confirmed cases and two suspected infections.
This antibody was isolated from blood samples from an Ebola survivor treated at Emory University Hospital during the 2014-2016 Ebola virus outbreak, an outbreak that began in West Africa and ...
Ebola was discovered in 1976 in two simultaneous outbreaks in South Sudan and Congo, where it occurred in a village near the Ebola River, after which the disease is named. — Rodney Muhumuza ...
Most outbreaks with this version of the virus have occurred in Uganda, which has had the two worst Ebola Sudan outbreaks — the 2000 Gulu outbreak, where 425 people were infected and 224 died ...
“Our top priority is to get to Bikoro to work alongside the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and partners to reduce the loss of life and suffering related to this new Ebola virus ...
There is no treatment and no vaccine. That’s why the latest Ebola outbreak in western Uganda, which has involved at least 20 cases and 14 deaths so far, has received so much attention.