The country is presently battling its eighth Ebola outbreak, confirmed by the Ministry of Health in January, with two ...

A Sudan Ebola vaccine, provided by the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), is being investigated in a Uganda vaccine trial that was launched just four days after the country declared an ...

The WHO said strong public engagement, including campaigns to counter misinformation, has helped Uganda reduce fatalities ...

The Sudan virus belongs to the same family as the Ebola virus. The announcement came after the death of a 32-year-old nurse in the capital, Kampala, who tested positive for the virus during a ...

The Government of Sweden has announced a $2 million contribution to UNICEF to bolster efforts in tackling the ongoing Sudan ...

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 ...

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NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / February 3, 2025 / The first participants have been vaccinated with an investigational Ebola Sudan vaccine candidate provided by IAVI, a nonprofit scientific ...

Africa’s top public health agency says that Uganda’s Ebola caseload increased to 14 in the last week with a new cluster emerging from a 4-year-old child who recently died of the infectious disease.

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan authorities on Monday began a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola that has killed one person in the outbreak declared last week.