Ebola Virus Vaccine. There are two types of licensed vaccines available to prevent Ebola in people at risk: Ervebo. This vaccine is approved by the U.S. FDA and by health agencies in several other ...

An outbreak of Ebola disease in Uganda is a result of Sudan virus, the World Health Organization has confirmed.. Samples from a patient in the Mubende district of central Uganda tested positive ...

Bartlett said people receiving the Ebola vaccine can expose people to the live Ebola virus. In the longer interview, Bartlett said the vaccine sheds 31% of the time, ...

Uganda was declared Ebola free on Wednesday after the latest outbreak of the virus claimed almost 60 lives in about five months. "Today we join the Government of Uganda to declare the end of the ...

“The patient experienced multi-organ failure and succumbed to the illness at Mulago National Referral Hospital on 29 January. Post-mortem samples confirmed the Sudan Ebola Virus Disease (strain ...

Ebola is spread by contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person or contaminated materials. Symptoms include fever, vomiting, diarrhea, muscle pain and at times internal and external bleeding.

Rare, Ebola-like disease kills one in Iowa: What to know. The person had returned recently from a trip to West Africa. Lassa fever is a viral disease similar to the Ebola virus.

Lassa fever is much less likely to be fatal than other viral hemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola or Marburg virus; an outbreak of Marburg virus in Rwanda has infected 65 people and resulted in 15 deaths.

Uganda has confirmed an outbreak of the Ebola virus in the capital Kampala with the first confirmed patient dying from it on Wednesday, the health ministry said on Thursday.