There are no approved vaccines or treatments for Sudan virus disease, which has a 40–70% fatality rate. To curb the ongoing outbreak, Uganda has deployed—under a clinical trial setting—a vaccine ...

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

Uganda has kicked off a clinical trial of a vaccine against Ebola that killed one person in the outbreak declared last week.

The outbreak marks Uganda's eighth from an Ebola virus. The first confirmed case in the outbreak was a nurse at a hospital in the nation's capital, Kampala, who contracted Ebola on Jan. 20 or Jan. 21 ...

Uganda declared an outbreak of a relatively rare strain of the deadly hemorrhagic disease Ebola on Thursday. “An outbreak of ...

Nairobi — The World Health Organization (WHO) says it is mobilizing efforts to support national health authorities in swiftly containing and ending the outbreak of the Sudan virus disease in Uganda.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has deployed a team of health experts to Uganda to support the country's response to a confirmed outbreak of Sudan virus disease, a viral illness similar to Ebola.

The Uganda and South Sudan governments have embarked on the construction of an electricity transmission line that will enable Uganda to export electricity from Karuma to Juba in South Sudan.

Sudan has often labeled UAE as a backer of RSF. But by extension, it has seen Sudan accuse Kenya, Uganda, Chad of helping the Gulf country run interference in Sudan. Egypt and Ethiopia have been ...

The nonprofit IAVI is developing an Ebola Sudan vaccine that is modeled after the Ervebo, Merck’s Ebola Zaire virus vaccine. IAVI told STAT that doses of its vaccine are already in Uganda and ...

Irene Sonia poses in front of a milaya, or bedsheet—one of the few things her mother managed to bring when they fled South Sudan for Uganda. This story appears in the May 2018 issue of National ...

Uganda has begun a trial vaccination programme for the strain of Ebola viral infection that is behind the country's latest ...