No new Ebola infections have been detected in Uganda for 42 days, and so on Wednesday, the World Health Organization and the Ugandan Ministry of Health officially declared that the country’s ...

The research, based on data from the massive 2018-2020 Ebola Zaire outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, showed that the risk of dying of Ebola was halved among people who had been ...

Uganda has confirmed seven cases of Ebola including in a man who died this week, ... In 2019, Uganda experienced an outbreak of Ebola Zaire.

Of four species of Ebola viruses that can infect humans, Ebola virus species Zaire ebolavirus is the deadliest, with fatality rates of 70% to 90% if left untreated, the CDC said.

During the 2014–16 Ebola outbreak, centered in West Africa and caused by the Ebola Zaire species, 11 people in the U.S. were treated for the virus. Of the 11, ...

An outbreak of Ebola has been declared in Uganda after health authorities confirmed a case of the relatively rare Sudan strain, the health ministry and World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.

Three candidate vaccines in development for the Ebola Zaire strain were sent to Uganda, with the first arriving on December 8, to be evaluated in a clinical trial being run by the Makerere ...

Ebola Zaire has a high fatality rate — 64% so far in this outbreak. Also, the clotting problems associated with the AstraZeneca and Janssen vaccines were even rarer in Africa than elsewhere, ...

Source Reference: PREVAC Study Team "Randomized trial of vaccines for Zaire Ebola virus disease" N Engl J Med 2022; DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2200072. Share on Facebook. Opens in a new tab or window.

For our calculations, we tested 100 values of R 0 sampled evenly across each strain’s range: from 1.36 to 4.71 for Ebola Zaire outbreaks and 1.34 to 2.7 for Ebola Sudan outbreaks.

Ebola spreads through contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person and has a fatality rate of about 50%. More than 11,300 people died during the 2013-2016 outbreak in West Africa. 5 ...