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

The virus is named after the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire), where one of the first outbreaks occurred in 1976. The same year there was another outbreak in Sudan.

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 ...

Critical cases of the Sudan Ebola virus can endanger kidneys, said William Fischer, director of emerging pathogens at the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases in the US, in a press ...

Here’s what you need to know about Ebola virus. Ebola outbreak 2022 details. On Sept. 20, Uganda’s Ministry of Health declared an outbreak of Ebola virus disease due to Sudan virus in the ...

The virus is not airborne, which means a person cannot get the disease simply by breathing the same air as an infected patient. (MORE: Ebola-stricken boy who became 1st cross-border case in ...

Uganda's Minister of Health Jane Ruth Aceng receives boxes containing one of three candidate vaccines against the Sudan strain of the Ebola virus, in Entebbe, Uganda Dec. 8, 2022. Hajarah Nalwadda/AP ...

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 ...

Health authorities in Uganda on Tuesday declared an Ebola outbreak after a case of Sudan ebolavirus was confirmed. Authorities in Uganda were investigating six “suspicious” deaths reported in ...

Study collaborators found that combining 1C3 and 1C11 in an antibody therapy could protect against Ebola virus and Sudan virus disease in non-human primates, reversing severe symptoms. "These are ...

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 ...

The virus was first reported in 1976 in two almost simultaneous outbreaks in areas that are now South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The outbreaks killed 151 and 280 people ...