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 nurse in ...

Uganda has launched a trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of the Ebola virus, following an outbreak in the country ...

India, Jan. 31 -- The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday confirmed an outbreak of Sudan virus disease in Uganda, which is part of the Ebola virus family.

T he 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 ...

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 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 ...

When the 2014 Ebola outbreak began, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recognized that it wasn’t fully prepared if someone with the virus entered the United States and spread ...

Ebola infections are frequent in Uganda, which has many tropical forests that are natural reservoirs for the virus. The latest outbreak, caused by the Sudan strain of the virus, which has no ...

Reuters. An aerial view shows the busy Namirembe road in the Central Business Centre after the health ministry announced an outbreak of Ebola virus in Uganda's capital, Kampala, January 30, 2025.

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), since the last Ebola outbreak was published on November 24, 2022, one new confirmed case of the Sudan Ebola Virus (SUDV) was reported on November ...

Ebola was first detected in the mid-1970s in simultaneous outbreaks in South Sudan and the Congo. Since then, the deadly disease has been behind dozens of outbreaks in the region and killed thousands.