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

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

The World Health Organization's emergencies director on Friday praised the "fastest roll-out" of an Ebola vaccine trial in ...

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

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a Health Alert Network (HAN) Health Advisory following the recent outbreak of Sudan Virus Disease (SVD) in Uganda, signaling heightened ...

Ugandan authorities launched on Monday a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola that has killed one nurse in the capital, Kampala. The 32-year-old male nurse died on ...

A laboratory specialist examines specimens of the Ebola virus at the Uganda virus research centre in 2011. Health-care workers in Uganda are being offered a candidate vaccine starting this week.

The WHO, Uganda’s ministry of health, the Uganda Virus Research Institute ... has already been licenced for the separate ‘Zaire strain’ of Ebola, but that vaccine is not effective with ...

The existing vaccination is for the Zaire strain, which is behind a ... A high-fatality disease, Ebola infection symptoms include haemorrhage, headache and muscle pains. The virus is transmitted ...