New research led by scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) reveals the workings of a human antibody called mAb ...

A study on FUO in Guinea found diverse bacterial and viral infections, frequent misdiagnoses, and high antibiotic resistance, ...

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 ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health alert about an outbreak in Uganda of deadly Sudan virus disease, a viral hemorrhagic fever that is in the same family as Ebola.

Ebola is rare, deadly and has multiple variations. There is a vaccine for the Zaire type, now trials for another are underway.

On January 29, a male nurse working in Uganda's capital, Kampala, died from Ebola caused by the Sudan virus. Uganda confirmed the outbreak on January 30. The alert issued on Thursday is CDC's ...

U.S. health officials on Wednesday urged Americans traveling to Uganda to take precautions because of an Ebola outbreak — and said they are helping Ugandan health officials respond to the threat ...

The outbreak marks Uganda's eighth from an Ebola virus. The first confirmed case in the outbreak was a nurse at a hospital in ...

KAMPALA, UGANDA — One nurse died from the Sudan Ebola virus in Uganda on Jan. 29. Two more cases were confirmed days later — and hundreds of people were direct contacts. The virus spreads fast ...

In a global first, Uganda’s Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners today launched a first-ever clinical efficacy trial for a vaccine from Ebola from the Sudan ...

Ugandan doctors liaise with the contact of a patient who tested positive for Ebola Credit ... the past been difficult to organise because the virus flares up, often in remote areas, before ...

A high-fatality disease, Ebola infection symptoms include haemorrhage, headache and muscle pains. The virus is transmitted through contact with infected bodily fluids and tissue.