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

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

On Tuesday, the east African country confirmed it had recorded 10 cases of the Sudan Ebola strain of the often deadly virus including that of a nurse at Mulago National Referral Hospital ...

According to a new study, an experiment on monkeys has shown that Ebola can be cured with just a pill. Scientists are trying ...

There is currently no approved vaccine for Ebola-Sudan, the strain behind the current outbreak. But a vaccination trial for the strain was launched in the country last month. It was praised by the ...

The cause of this new outbreak has been referred to as the Sudan Ebola strain, which does not have an approved vaccine yet. The 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa killed more than 11,000 peop ...

One of the biggest hurdles in controlling the outbreak is the absence of an approved vaccine for the Sudan strain of Ebola, which is responsible for the current infections. Unlike the Zaire strain ...

On Tuesday, the east African country confirmed it had recorded 10 cases of the Sudan Ebola strain of the often deadly virus — including that of a nurse at Mulago National Referral Hospital ...

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

The Ebola strain responsible for the nurse's death and the outbreak is the Sudan strain, while the strain affecting the child has not yet been confirmed. It is the most contagious but least deadly ...

The outbreak has been caused by a strain of the Ebola virus for which there are no approved vaccines or treatments. So far, it has caused four deaths, 12 confirmed cases and two suspected infections.