On Jan. 30, Uganda confirmed an outbreak of the Sudan virus disease. The Sudan virus belongs to the same family as the Ebola virus. The announcement came after the death of a 32-year-old male ...

Sudan virus disease is essentially a disease very similar to Ebola. The Ebola virus has caused several high-profile outbreaks. The west Africa 2014-16 outbreak was the largest with 28,600 cases and 11 ...

Byegarazo is one of a group of survivors who contracted the Sudan strain of Ebola—also known as Sudan virus disease (SVD)—after exposure to the first identified case at the hospital in Kampala ...

The Ministry of Health has announced strict burial protocols as part of a public alert in response to the declaration of an outbreak of Sudan Ebola Virus Disease in neighboring Uganda. In a ...

Analysis - 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 ...

Uganda last reported an outbreak of Sudan virus disease in 2022. WHO confirmed to accelerate efforts by mobilizing resources expertise and essential tools to contain the outbreak and save lives.

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In previous outbreaks, Sudan virus disease has had a case fatality rate between 41% and 70%, according to WHO. There is no vaccine to prevent infection and no specific medicines to treat it.

The US Department of Health and Human Services is weighing whether to fund new Marburg and Sudan Ebola virus vaccines even as Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. overhauls the US immunization landscape, ...

SUDV is in the same family as Ebola, and is a hemorrhagic fever; SUDV is also known as the Sudan Ebola. The virus tends to have high case fatality, which has ranged from 41 to 70 percent in past ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health alert about an outbreak in Uganda of deadly Sudan virus disease, a viral hemorrhagic fever that is in the same family as Ebola.