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 ...

At least one person has died in the country's latest outbreak. US aid has been key to containing previous outbreaks. How will ...

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

Readers protest the abrupt seizure and threats to some of the nation’s most essential agencies. Also: Praise for federal ...

Infectious disease emergencies can threaten breastfeeding and the lives of mothers and babies. Depending on the disease, ...

US president Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization is threatening funding for ...

Lange's study revealed that the most common ancestor of Zaire ebolavirus was circulating in the forests of what is now the northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1960, while the most recent ...

The world's richest man is boasting about destroying the U.S. Agency for International Development, which saves the lives of ...

U.S. health officials advise Americans traveling to Uganda to take enhanced precautions due to an Ebola outbreak ...

Ebola is rare, deadly and has multiple variations. There is a vaccine for the Zaire type, now trials for another are underway ...