The WHO said strong public engagement, including campaigns to counter misinformation, has helped Uganda reduce fatalities from the virus. The mortality rate for the outbreak stands at 11.1 percent.

New research this month shows that the experimental antiviral obeldesivir prevented up to 100% of deaths in monkeys infected ...

KAMPALA, UGANDA | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has embarked on a 42-day count-down to end the Sudan Ebola Virus ...

The pill protected 80 per cent of the cynomolgus macaques and 100 per cent of the rhesus macaques, which are biologically ...

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 a $2 million contribution to UNICEF to bolster efforts in tackling the ongoing Sudan ...

A vaccine was only widely approved in 2019, and while two intravenous antibody treatments improve outcomes, they require costly cold storage.

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 ...

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 ...

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