On 18 February, Byegarazo and seven others walked out of treatment centers in Kampala and Mbale, a city in Eastern Uganda, ...

Lassa fever does not spread easily between people and the overall risk to the public is regarded as ‘very low’ ...

Dr. Herbert Luswata, president of the Uganda Medical Association, said that the Ebola response had been badly hampered by the ...

South Korea will bolster quarantine measures on people entering from seven African nations as part of efforts to prevent the ...

New research led by scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) reveals the workings of a human antibody called mAb 3A6, which may prove to be an important component for Ebola virus ...

The model on the left shows how the Ebola virus stalk has a compact conformation, which blocks the site where mAb 3A6 would bind. The model on the right shows how this portion of the stalk can ...

The agency said post-mortem samples were tested and confirmed Ebola. The CDC said Uganda is experiencing an outbreak of Sudan virus disease (SVD) in Kampala, Mbale and Wakiso. SVD is a type of ...

Michael Head, a senior research fellow in global health at the University of Southampton, told The Conversation: "Sudan virus disease is essentially a disease very similar to Ebola. The Ebola ...

The Ebola virus has caused several high-profile outbreaks ... The similarities in structure between these two types of orthoebolavirus mean that the symptoms in patients are similar.

In 2023, he received the prestigious Sabin Vaccine Institute Gold Medal for developing other innovative vaccines for Ebola Zaire, smallpox, Japanese encephalitis, and West Nile virus, among others.

Scientists suspect the first person infected with Ebola in an outbreak acquired the virus through contact with an infected animal or eating its raw meat. Ugandan officials are still investigating ...

A young child has died of the Ebola virus in Uganda, the second victim of an outbreak that was announced in late January, the health ministry has announced. The ministry said at least ten cases of the ...