The Ebola virus devastated west Africa in 2014, claiming over 11,000 lives in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. It was the largest Ebola outbreak since the virus had first been discovered in the ...

Mindful that only two vaccines exist, and both were designed to prevent Ebola virus infection, a multidisciplinary team of scientists at a U.S. military research institute has analyzed whether one ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services is weighing whether to fund new Marburg and Sudan Ebola virus vaccines even as Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. overhauls the US immunization landscape, ...

Emergency vaccination campaigns have slashed deaths from major infectious disease outbreaks by nearly 60 per cent since 2000, ...

Likewise for treatments, approved treatments are only available for Ebola virus. The vaccine for the trial was recommended by the independent WHO candidate vaccine prioritization working group.

A trial vaccine known as rVSV-ZEBOV, used to vaccinate 3,000 people at risk of infection during an outbreak of the Zaire strain of Ebola in eastern Congo between 2018 and 2020, proved effective in ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan authorities on Monday began a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola that has killed one person in the outbreak declared last week. Health ...

The Ebola virus devastated west Africa in 2014, ... They marked a turning point in the fight against Ebola. The vaccine’s near-perfect efficacy offered a rare moment of hope.

KAMPALA, Uganda — Ugandan officials are preparing to deploy a trial vaccine as part of efforts to stem an outbreak of Ebola in the capital, Kampala, a top health official said Sunday.