Here’s a look at Ebola, a virus with a high fatality rate that was first identified in Africa in 1976. Facts Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a disease caused by one of five different Ebola viruses. Four of ...

SEVEN people have tested positive and two have died from a highly contagious strain of Ebola in Uganda, as scientists race to ...

In 2023, he received the prestigious Sabin Vaccine Institute Gold Medal for developing other innovative vaccines for Ebola Zaire, smallpox, Japanese encephalitis, and West Nile virus, among others.

Six species of the virus are known to cause disease in humans -- Zaire, Sudan, Bundibugyo, Reston, Tai Forest and Bombali.

The often-deadly Ebola virus disease (EVD) is confined mostly to Africa, but because of how globally connected the world is today, it is regarded as a possible health threat worldwide. Still ...

Uganda health authorities say they discharged the last eight patients who recovered from Ebola. There were no other positive ...

Uganda has confirmed an outbreak of Sudan virus disease, with the first case linked to a 32-year-old nurse in Kampala.

The Ministry of Health has closed Saidina Abubaker Islamic Hospital and evacuated all health workers to an isolation facility ...

The virus is similar to Ebola and symptoms include 'unexplained bleeding', vomiting and diarrhoea - an outbreak has been ...