There are no approved vaccines or treatments for Sudan virus disease, which has a 40–70% fatality rate. To curb the ongoing outbreak, Uganda has deployed—under a clinical trial setting—a vaccine ...

The World Health Organization's emergencies director on Friday praised the "fastest roll-out" of an Ebola vaccine trial amid an epidemic, as Uganda responded to its latest outbreak.

Amid a new Ebola outbreak in Kampala, Uganda, the World Health Organization has kicked off a vaccine trial. This is the first ...

SEVEN people have tested positive and two have died from a highly contagious strain of Ebola in Uganda, as scientists race to ...

As a precaution, the CDC is urging U.S. healthcare organizations to reinforce Ebola preparedness protocols amid a newly confirmed outbreak in Uganda. The outbreak, caused by the Sudan virus, was ...

Ebola is rare, deadly and has multiple variants. There is a vaccine for the Zaire type. Now, trials for another strain are ...

Breastfeeding is so important for child health that the World Health Organization (WHO) and Unicef recommend that babies should be breastfed within an hour of birth, be exclusively breastfed for the ...

Dr Aceng emphasised the relevance of safe, dignified burials for Ebola victims due to the high risk of infection ...

The world’s richest man is boasting about destroying the U.S. Agency for International Development, which saves the lives of the world’s poorest children, saying he shoved it “into the wood chipper.” ...

The agency said although no cases have been reported in the U.S., it was issuing an advisory through its health alert network ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Feb. 6 released an advisory about an outbreak of Ebola in Uganda caused by the Sudan virus disease.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health alert about an outbreak in Uganda of deadly Sudan virus ...