The country is presently battling its eighth Ebola outbreak, confirmed by the Ministry of Health in January, with two ...

Officials were not required to give updates on every incident, he said. Tracing contacts is key to stemming the spread of Ebola, and there are no approved vaccines for the Sudan strain of Ebola that’s ...

A Sudan Ebola vaccine, provided by the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), is being investigated in a Uganda vaccine trial that was launched just four days after the country declared an ...

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. This is the first trial to assess ...

The Sudan virus belongs to the same family as the Ebola virus. The announcement came after the death of a 32-year-old nurse in the capital, Kampala, who tested positive for the virus during a ...

The Government of Sweden has announced a $2 million contribution to UNICEF to bolster efforts in tackling the ongoing Sudan ...

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 ...

NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / February 3, 2025 / The first participants have been vaccinated with an investigational Ebola Sudan vaccine candidate provided by IAVI, a nonprofit scientific ...

Uganda declared the outbreak of the Sudan strain of the highly infectious and often fatal haemorrhagic disease in January. Ebola symptoms include fever, headache and muscle pains. The virus is ...

The government of Sweden has announced new funding of $2 million (about Shs7.3 billion) for UNICEF to respond to the Sudan Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in Uganda.

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