In a first, scientists test the efficacy of an experimental vaccine against the life-threatening virus ...

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-old male nurse ...

Sudan virus (SUDV) can infect people to cause Sudan virus disease (SVD). Right now, an outbreak of SVD has been detected in Uganda. The first patient, a 32-year-old nurse, died from the illness on ...

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 ...

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, ...

This marks Uganda's eighth recorded Ebola outbreak since the first infection was documented in 2000. The Sudan Ebola Virus Disease (SUDV) is a highly infectious haemorrhagic fever which is ...

) GENEVA, Jan 30 (KUNA) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday announced the first confirmed death from Sudan virus disease (same family a Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT عربي ...

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. On ...

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 ...

WHO explained that Sudan virus disease is a severe often fatal illness affecting humans and other primates that is due to Orthoebolavirus sudanense (Sudan virus) a viral species belonging to the same ...

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.