KAMPALA, UGANDA — One nurse died from the Sudan Ebola virus in Uganda on Jan. 29. Two more cases were confirmed days later — and hundreds of people were direct contacts. The virus spreads fast, and it ...

Sudan virus (SUDV) can infect people to cause Sudan virus disease (SVD). Right now, an outbreak of SVD has been detected in ...

Ugandan authorities launched a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola that has killed one nurse in the ...

A former Republican director of USAID says the agency is critical to U.S. interests and can’t be abolished or folded into the State Department.

In what looks like a global first, Uganda’s Ministry of Health, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and other partners on ...

Uganda has deployed more than 1,000 extra soldiers into east Congo in the last week near an area where the Kinshasa government is fighting M23 rebels, four diplomatic and U.N. sources said, ...

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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The first phase of the clinical program in Uganda involves contacts of a nurse who died in the latest outbreak, according to ...

Sudan Virus Disease (SVD), a deadly illness related to ebola, has become a serious public health threat in Uganda ...

Health workers prepare to administer vaccines against the Sudan strain of Ebola, during a trial at Mulago Referral Hospital, ...

This is a critical achievement toward better pandemic preparedness and saving lives when outbreaks occur,” said Dr. Tedros ...