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

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

Health workers comb affected districts for remnant cases NEWS ANALYSIS | RONALD MUSOKE |  Uganda’s Ministry of Health ...

On 18 February, Byegarazo and seven others walked out of treatment centers in Kampala and Mbale, a city in Eastern Uganda, ...

often fatal illness affecting humans and other primates that is due to Orthoebolavirus sudanense (Sudan virus), a viral species belonging to the same genus of the virus causing Ebola virus disease.

The team’s earlier work with monkeys has already found that obeldesivir might be effective against Sudan virus, the second most commonly encountered species of Ebola. Earlier this January ...

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 ...

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.

But they are still investigating its source. Tracing contacts is key to stemming the spread of Ebola, and there are no approved vaccines for the Sudan strain of Ebola that's infecting people in ...

Ebola in Uganda is the latest in a trend of outbreaks of viral hemorrhagic fevers in the east African region. Tanzania ...

Ebola is a viral haemorrhagic fever that was ... Six of the virus species are known to cause disease in humans -- Zaire, Sudan, Bundibugyo, Reston, Tai Forest and Bombali. The first three have ...

The latest outbreak is the sixth time Uganda has detected cases of Ebola. The cause of this new outbreak has been referred to as the Sudan Ebola strain, which does not have an approved vaccine yet.