Ugandan officials are preparing to deploy a trial vaccine as part of efforts to stem an outbreak of Ebola in the capital, ...

Cautions On Travels To Uganda, Sudan Others Advertisement Following the confirmation of an outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease in Uganda, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has ...

Uganda is racing to launch a trial Ebola vaccine after a deadly outbreak in Kampala claimed a nurse’s life. With no approved ...

Test results on the sick people are pending, and a top WHO official said the outbreak response is proceeding rapidly.

Ministry of Health says Ebola precaution measures enhanced in counties after Uganda reported one more death, urges Kenyans to stay alert and report anyone displaying symptoms.

Ten years ago, I was in the hospital battling Ebola. My fever rarely relented. I felt so weak that getting up was a herculean task, attempted only a few times a day. Having treated patients with ...

Often compared to Ebola, this highly contagious haemorrhagic fever has already claimed eight lives, with nine confirmed cases reported. It is being speculated that the virus has a potential of ...

So far, the Ebola-like illness has infected nine people and killed eight - with the World Health Organisation (WHO) warning that "more cases are expected to be identified". It comes shortly after ...

"We would expect further cases in coming days as disease surveillance improves." Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact with the ...

The Ebola virus binded poorly to straw-colored fruit bats' NPC1 receptor. "That really struck me," said Anthony, who helped discover the sixth known ebolavirus strain, Bombali virus.

(Ondrej Prosicky, Getty) Bats are widely recognized as the primary hosts of filoviruses, such as Ebola, yet the specific host species of ebolaviruses are not definitively known. In a study led by the ...

Ebola virus, one of the deadliest pathogens, has a fatality rate of about 50%, posing a serious threat to global health and safety. To address this challenge, researchers have developed the first ...