In more vaccine news: A clinical trial designed to test whether an experimental Ebola Sudan vaccine actually works got underway in Uganda on Monday, with the WHO helping the Ugandan government to ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan authorities on Monday began a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola that has killed one person in the outbreak declared last week. Health ...

Emergency vaccination during outbreaks of diseases like cholera, Ebola and measles have over the past quarter-century reduced deaths from such illnesses by nearly 60 percent, according to a new study.

Like Ebola, the Sudan virus enters cells by binding to NPC1, a protein responsible for cholesterol transport. Using cryo-electron microscopy, the researchers mapped how the Sudan virus interacts ...

Health authorities in Uganda say Ebola cases in the country have risen to nine while 265 other people are being monitored under quarantine ...

Ebola was discovered in 1976 in two simultaneous outbreaks in South Sudan and Congo, where it occurred in a village near the Ebola River, after which the disease is named.

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, ...

The Sudan virus belongs to the same family as the Ebola virus. The announcement came after the death of a 32-year-old male nurse in the capital, Kampala, who tested positive for the virus during a ...

More about IAVI's investigational Ebola Sudan vaccine candidate In 2023, IAVI initiated a Phase 1 clinical trial of its rVSV-based Ebola Sudan vaccine candidate.

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan authorities on Monday began a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola that has killed one person in the outbreak declared last week. Health ...

Ugandan authorities have begun a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola that has killed one person in the outbreak declared last week.