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The vaccines are intended to be developed for use against Marburg virus and Sudan ebolavirus, two hemorrhagic fevers in the ...
"I thought I was going to die," he said. "Ebola is real, and I have tasted it. Had it not been for the doctors, I would be dead." Byegarazo is one of a group of survivors who contracted the Sudan ...
Uganda has begun a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola following an outbreak that has killed one nurse in the east African country.
Of eight previous outbreaks of the Sudan Ebola virus, five were in Uganda and three in Sudan. The Democratic Republic of the Congo has had more than a dozen Ebola epidemics , the deadliest killing ...
Authorities in Uganda declared an Ebola outbreak Tuesday of the "Sudan" strain after six mysterious deaths in a central district and lab tests confirmed a case in a 24-year-old male, the World ...
Sudan Virus, one of the viruses that cause Ebola disease, has seen seven outbreaks since it was first discovered in the 1970s, four of which were in Uganda, and three in Sudan.
No new Ebola infections have been detected in Uganda for 42 days, and so on Wednesday, the World Health Organization and the Ugandan Ministry of Health officially declared that the country’s ...
A new Ebola Sudan vaccine trial is underway. There are no approved vaccines for the Sudan strain of Ebola in Uganda’s outbreak. But authorities have launched a clinical study to further test the ...
Most outbreaks with this version of the virus have occurred in Uganda, which has had the two worst Ebola Sudan outbreaks — the 2000 Gulu outbreak, where 425 people were infected and 224 died ...
Uganda has had multiple Ebola outbreaks, including one in 2000 that killed hundreds. The 2014-16 Ebola outbreak in West Africa killed more than 11,000 people, the disease’s largest death toll.