Uganda celebrates a major health victory, officially declaring the end of the Ebola Sudan Virus Disease outbreak after 42 ...

WHO protocols, this duration without new cases was required before the outbreak could be officially declared over.

The Ebola virus was identified in 1976 during epidemics of haemorrhagic fever in southern Sudan and northern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). The average mortality rate of Ebola virus ...

Filoviruses are among the globe's most lethal—indeed, so dangerous they can be handled only in high-security laboratories.

Uganda declared the end of an Ebola virus outbreak Saturday, which has killed at least two people in the east African nation ...

FILE PHOTO: A Ugandan doctor vaccinates the contact of a patient who tested positive during the launch of the vaccination for the Sudan strain of the Ebola virus with a trial vaccine at the Mulago ...

It said the declaration followed 42 days "without a new case since the last confirmed patient was discharged." ...

Uganda declared the end of an Ebola virus outbreak Saturday, which has killed at least two people in the east African nation since late January. The announcement came 42 days after the discharge ...

Uganda has declared an end to the Ebola outbreak that began earlier this year in Kampala, the nation’s capital city.

Ebola infections are frequent in Uganda which has many tropical forests that are natural reservoirs for the virus. The latest outbreak, caused by the Sudan strain of the virus, was detected on ...