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

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.

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 ...

Is the Sudan virus deadlier than Ebola? A key discovery explains how it clings to human cells. The Sudan virus, a close relative of Ebola, has a 50% fatality rate, but its mechanisms of cell ...

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 ...

At least seven people have tested positive and two have died from a highly contagious Ebola virus strain in Uganda as ...

Most often, Ebola outbreaks have been caused by the Zaire type of the Ebola virus (Zaire ebolavirus) and the Sudan type (Sudan ebolavirus). During the most recent outbreaks, which have had high ...

There are no approved vaccines or treatments for Sudan virus disease, which has a 40–70% fatality rate. To curb the ongoing outbreak, Uganda has deployed—under a clinical trial setting—a vaccine ...

A clinical trial of a potentially effective vaccine against Sudan Virus Disease (SVD) has started in Uganda after the country’s Health Ministry confirmed a Sudan Ebola outbreak last week.

The study comes amid an outbreak of the Sudan Ebola virus, which has already killed a nurse and infected others. A nurse administers the first injection of the Sudan Ebola vaccine to a volunteer ...