Uganda has kicked off a clinical trial of a vaccine against Ebola that killed one person in the outbreak declared last week.

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

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The outbreak marks Uganda's eighth from an Ebola virus. The first confirmed case in the outbreak was a nurse at a hospital in the nation's capital, Kampala, who contracted Ebola on Jan. 20 or Jan. 21 ...

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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Uganda has begun a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola following an outbreak that has killed one ...

Six people were killed and 38 injured in a strike by Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a hospital in Omdurman, the health ministry in Khartoum province said on Tuesday.

Uganda has begun a trial vaccination programme for the strain of Ebola viral infection that is behind the country's latest ...

The World Health Organization says this is the first trial to assess the efficacy of a vaccine against the Sudan strain.