Uganda has discharged eight patients who have recovered from the Sudan strain of Ebola after they tested negative twice, ...

Here’s a look at Ebola, a virus with a high fatality rate that was first identified in Africa in 1976. Facts Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a disease caused by one of five different Ebola viruses. Four of ...

Uganda has discharged eight people after they recovered from Ebola although at least 265 contacts remain under quarantine, ...

In 2023, he received the prestigious Sabin Vaccine Institute Gold Medal for developing other innovative vaccines for Ebola Zaire, smallpox, Japanese encephalitis, and West Nile virus, among others.

There is a vaccine for the Zaire type, now trials for another are underway.What you need to know:. Most often, Ebola outbreaks have been caused by the Zaire type of the Ebola virus and the Sudan type.

Uganda has discharged eight Ebola patients, while 265 contacts remain under strict quarantine for monitoring, the health ...

Six species of the virus are known to cause disease in humans -- Zaire, Sudan, Bundibugyo, Reston, Tai Forest and Bombali.

However, the Sudan strain is both less deadly and less transmissable than the Zaire virus, and health officials have assured locals that the current situation is "under control", with Uganda ...

Ugandan health officials on Thursday confirmed a case of Ebola in the capital, Kampala, in a nurse who sought care at a number of facilities before it was known he was suffering from the disease.

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

Centred in Mubende district, it was declared over after four months. There are six known types of the Ebola virus. Four of them, Zaire, Bundibugyo, Sudan, and Taï Forest, are known to cause disease in ...