The Ugandan government and the World Health Organization recently confirmed an outbreak of Sudan virus disease. The index (first-known) case of this outbreak is thought to be a 32-year-old male nurse ...

A new retrospective, laboratory-based observational study provides detailed insights into the causes of fevers of unknown ...

KAMPALA, Uganda — Ebola cases in Uganda have risen to nine, while 265 other people were being monitored under quarantine, ...

While the world has been focused on COVID-19, the fight against Ebola has continued. This virus, which first emerged in 1976, ...

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 ...

Ugandan authorities have begun a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola that has killed one person in the outbreak declared last week ...

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

Contact with contaminated objects includes, contact with surfaces, materials (such as bedding) or medical equipment (such as needles) contaminated with a virus that can cause Ebola disease. Wash your ...

The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) works closely with national and international partners to track Ebola disease outbreaks. These partners include the provinces and territories as well as the ...

But the coronavirus causes COVID, while the influenza virus causes the flu. COVID also spreads faster than the flu and remains contagious for longer periods. Both illnesses cause symptoms such ...

A Bolivian man has died after contracting Chapare virus, an Ebola-like disease so rare that there have only ever been 15 confirmed cases. The man, a farmer in his 50s, came down with a headache ...