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 ...

The World Health Organization's emergencies director on Friday praised the "fastest roll-out" of an Ebola vaccine trial amid an epidemic, as Uganda responded to its latest outbreak.

J ames Akot has three goats. He shares them with his wife, his mother, three younger siblings, and two of his cousin's ...

A group of regional lawyers has launched a legal and diplomatic campaign against Uganda's Chief of Defence Forces, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, accusing him of making inflammatory statements that ...

The agency said although no cases have been reported in the U.S., it was issuing an advisory through its health alert network ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Feb. 6 released an advisory about an outbreak of Ebola in Uganda caused by the Sudan virus disease.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health alert about an outbreak in Uganda of deadly Sudan virus ...

Pure water is flowing for the first time in the remote village of Katchuat, South Sudan, after young people in eastern Idaho teamed up to help transform lives in one of the poorest nations on Earth.

Female genital mutilation is excruciatingly painful and medically unnecessary. UNICEF is working to end this cruel practice.

The outbreak marks Uganda's eighth from an Ebola virus. The first confirmed case in the outbreak was a nurse at a hospital in the nation's capital, Kampala, who contracted Ebola on Jan. 20 or Jan. 21 ...

Uganda has begun a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola following an outbreak that has killed one ...

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