A new retrospective, laboratory-based observational study provides detailed insights into the causes of fevers of unknown origin in sub-Saharan Africa. Scientists examined 550 patients from Guinea who ...

Amid a new Ebola outbreak in Kampala, Uganda, the World Health Organization has kicked off a vaccine trial. This is the first ...

SEVEN people have tested positive and two have died from a highly contagious strain of Ebola in Uganda, as scientists race to ...

Uganda has confirmed an outbreak of Sudan virus disease, with the first case linked to a 32-year-old nurse in Kampala.

Six species of the virus are known to cause disease in humans -- Zaire, Sudan, Bundibugyo, Reston, Tai Forest and Bombali.

A laboratory holding Ebola and other dangerous pathogens in the eastern DR Congo city of Goma—which has been seized by the ...

The INRB lab in Goma is equipped with state-of-the-art technologies that meet the highest international standards of quality, ...

No licensed vaccines or therapeutics are available for Ebola Sudan, a Category A priority pathogen ... including a Lassa virus vaccine candidate currently in Phase 2 clinical trials in West ...

The vaccine candidate is being evaluated in a ring vaccination trial as part of a comprehensive public health response ...