Uganda has discharged eight people after they recovered from Ebola although at least 265 contacts remain under quarantine, ...

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 ...

The number of confirmed Ebola cases in Uganda has risen to nine from three, the country's health ministry said.

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

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

Lange's study revealed that the most common ancestor of Zaire ebolavirus was circulating in the forests of what is now the ...

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

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a Health Alert Network (HAN) Health Advisory following the recent outbreak of Sudan Virus Disease (SVD) in Uganda, signaling heightened ...

In a global first, Uganda’s Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization, and other partners launched a first-ever ...

The other main type of Ebola is called Zaire. "Sudan can be as aggressive as Zaire," with similar signs and symptoms, said Gary Kobinger, who worked at Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory ...

IAVI said its Ebola Sudan vaccine candidate uses the same viral vector platform as Merck's single-dose Zaire Ebola virus vaccine. "Overall, it's a very similar vaccine, adapted for Sudan ...

A vaccine has already been licenced for the separate ‘Zaire strain’ of Ebola, but that vaccine is not effective with the Sudan strain.