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 ...

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

The number of confirmed Ebola cases in Uganda has risen to nine from three, the country's health ministry said. The East ...

Influenza virus is an infectious agent belonging to the virus family Orthomyxoviridae that causes a respiratory tract infection (influenza or 'flu') in vertebrates. There are three main species ...

The Sudan virus, a close relative of Ebola, has a fatality rate of 50% but remains poorly understood in terms of how it infects cells. Currently, no approved treatments exist. To address this critical ...

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

Scientists don’t know the natural reservoir of Ebola, but they suspect the first person infected in an outbreak acquired the virus through contact with an infected animal or eating its raw meat.

Uganda has confirmed an outbreak of the Ebola virus in the capital Kampala with the first confirmed patient dying from it on Wednesday, the health ministry said on Thursday. It is the East African ...

Ugandan health officials on Thursday confirmed a case of Ebola in the capital, Kampala, in a 32-year-old nurse. The man died Wednesday at the Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala.

Uganda declared an outbreak of a relatively rare strain of the deadly hemorrhagic disease Ebola on Thursday. “An outbreak of ...

Health officials worry the unusual strain will spread in crowded Kampala after the death of a male nurse.

Scientists believe the virus originates from infected animals, though its natural reservoir remains unknown. Uganda has faced multiple Ebola outbreaks, including a deadly 2000 epidemic.