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

"I thought I was going to die," he said. "Ebola is real, and I have tasted it. Had it not been for the doctors, I would be dead." Byegarazo is one of a group of survivors who contracted the Sudan ...

Most outbreaks with this version of the virus have occurred in Uganda, which has had the two worst Ebola Sudan outbreaks — the 2000 Gulu outbreak, where 425 people were infected and 224 died ...

Of eight previous outbreaks of the Sudan Ebola virus, five were in Uganda and three in Sudan. The Democratic Republic of the Congo has had more than a dozen Ebola epidemics , the deadliest killing ...

A new Ebola Sudan vaccine trial is underway. There are no approved vaccines for the Sudan strain of Ebola in Uganda’s outbreak. But authorities have launched a clinical study to further test the ...

Africa’s top public health agency says that Uganda’s Ebola caseload increased to 14 in the last week with a new cluster emerging from a 4-year-old child who recently died of the infectious disease ...

Now, just two years later, on January 30, 2025, Uganda announced its latest Sudan Ebola outbreak. The Ministry of Health identified a 32-year-old male nurse who had died as the first documented case.

Uganda discharged on Tuesday the last eight patients who recovered from Ebola, health authorities reported, and there were no other positive cases in the outbreak declared last month.

Uganda on Saturday declared an end to the country's latest outbreak of ebola, ... during the launch of the vaccination for the Sudan strain of Ebola virus, in Kampala, Uganda, Feb. 3, 2025.

KAMPALA, Uganda — Ugandan authorities on Monday began a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola that has killed one person in the outbreak declared last week.

In a global first, Uganda's Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners on Feb.03 launched a first-ever clinical efficacy trial for a vaccine from Ebola from the ...