Ebola is rare, deadly and has multiple variations. There is a vaccine for the Zaire type, now trials for another are underway ...

The World Health Organization's emergencies director on Friday praised the "fastest roll-out" of an Ebola vaccine trial in ...

The confirmation of Ebola in Uganda is the latest in a series of outbreaks of viral hemorrhagic fevers in the east African ...

Ugandan officials are preparing to deploy a trial vaccine as part of efforts to stem an outbreak of Ebola in the capital, ...

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

In its last outbreak, more than two years ago, Uganda saw 164 cases and 55 confirmed deaths from Ebola. Uganda announced ...

There are two licensed Ebola vaccines, but they protect against Ebola Zaire viruses. The Ugandan outbreak involves a different species of the virus, Ebola Sudan. The IAVI vaccine is made following ...

The first participants have been vaccinated with an investigational Ebola Sudan vaccine candidate provided by IAVI, a nonprofit scientific ...

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

Merck’s Ebola Zaire virus vaccine. IAVI told STAT that doses of its vaccine are already in Uganda and could be used as part of the response to this outbreak, in the context of a clinical trial.

Ugandan authorities launched a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola that has killed one nurse in the ...

The highly contagious Ebola virus has claimed more than 15,000 lives since it was first identified in central Africa in 1976.