U.S. health officials are telling Americans to take precautions if they travel to Uganda because of an Ebola outbreak.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health alert about an outbreak in Uganda of deadly Sudan virus ...

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

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

Infectious disease emergencies can threaten breastfeeding and the lives of mothers and babies. Depending on the disease, ...

Ebola, which is spread by contact with bodily fluids of an infected person or contaminated materials, manifests as a deadly hemorrhagic fever. Symptoms include fever, vomiting, diarrhea ...

However, contact tracing could be challenging as Kampala, where the latest Ebola infection cropped up, is a crowded city of over 4 million people and a crossroads for traffic to South Sudan ...

Uganda has confirmed an outbreak of the Ebola virus in the capital, Kampala, with the first confirmed patient dying from it, ...

These efforts are critical to ensure that people who might be ... or if he was infected by someone whose illness was not identified as Ebola — in which case, there could be other, as yet ...

An Ebola outbreak has been reported in the Democratic ... The best ways to prevent infection are to avoid contact with bodily fluids of infected people, to wear the proper protective equipment ...

contact tracing and other techniques to bring Ebola outbreaks under control. Uganda last suffered an outbreak in late 2022, which killed 55 of the 143 people infected. The deceased included six ...