Following the recovery and discharge of the eight Ebola Sudan Virus Disease patients who were contacts of a health worker who ...

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 ...

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 ...

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

The other main type of Ebola is called Zaire. A laboratory specialist examines specimens of the Ebola virus at the Uganda virus research centre in 2011. Health-care workers in Uganda are being ...

There are six known types of the Ebola virus. Four of them, Zaire, Bundibugyo, Sudan, and Taï Forest, are known to cause disease in humans. The Reston and Bombali strains primarily affect non ...