Ugandan authorities on Monday began a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola that has killed one person ...

Uganda’s Ministry of Health has confirmed an Ebola outbreak in the capital, Kampala, following the death of a 32-year-old ...

The patient presented with a five-day history of high fever, chest pain, and difficulty in breathing, which later progressed to unexplained bleeding from multiple body sites.' Ebola is spread ...

Ebola is spread by contact with bodily fluids of an infected person or contaminated materials. Symptoms include fever, vomiting, diarrhea, muscle pain and at times internal and external bleeding.

and it causes an illness like Ebola, with fever, headache and malaise, followed by vomiting, diarrhoea, and aches and pains. The bleeding follows about five days later, and it can be fatal in up ...

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

Tracing contacts is also key to stemming the spread of Ebola, which manifests as a viral hemorrhagic fever. At least 44 contacts of the victim in the current outbreak have been identified ...

Uganda’s Ebola outbreak is not an isolated incident; rather, it is part of a concerning trend of viral hemorrhagic fevers in East Africa. Tanzania recently reported an outbreak of Marburg virus ...

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