The Ugandan government and the World Health Organization recently confirmed an outbreak of Sudan virus disease. The index (first-known) case of this outbreak is thought to be a 32-year-old male nurse ...

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

KAMPALA, Uganda — Ebola cases in Uganda have risen to nine, while 265 other people were being monitored under quarantine, ...

Influenza virus is an infectious agent belonging to the virus family Orthomyxoviridae that causes a respiratory tract infection (influenza or 'flu') in vertebrates. There are three main species ...

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 ...

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

Ebola virus is a single-stranded RNA virus belonging ... SUDV was first identified in southern Sudan in 1976 and has caused seven outbreaks (four in Uganda and three in Sudan), so far.

Scientists don’t know the natural reservoir of Ebola, but they suspect the first person infected in an outbreak acquired the virus through ... Ebola was discovered in 1976 in two simultaneous ...