WHO and the Uganda Health Ministry have launched a first-ever vaccine trial for the species of Ebola at the center of an ...

"The fundamental question is, where is the next ebolavirus outbreak going to come from?" said co-leading author Simon Anthony, an associate professor with the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine.

There are many symptoms that are common to a wide variety of diseases, like fever, which can indicate an infection, ...

Four of them are known to cause disease in humans: Ebola virus (Zaire ebolavirus) Sudan virus (Sudan ebolavirus) Taï Forest virus (Taï Forest ebolavirus, formerly Côte d’Ivoire ebolavirus ...

The appearance in West Africa of Zaire ebolavirus was initially reported in March 2014, in a rural area of Guinea close to its borders with Sierra Leone and Liberia. Subsequent sequencing analyses ...

“The fundamental question is, where is the next ebolavirus outbreak going to come from?” said co-leading author Simon Anthony, an associate professor with the UC Davis School of Veterinary ...

There are no approved vaccines or treatments for Sudan virus disease, which has a 40–70% fatality rate. To curb the ongoing outbreak, Uganda has deployed—under a clinical trial setting—a vaccine ...

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced the release of additional $2 million to support Uganda's effort to fight the ongoing Ebola outbreak ...