"The current Ebola Sudan Virus Disease outbreak has officially come to an end," Uganda's health ministry said on X. "This follows 42 days without a new case since the last confirmed patient was ...

The Sudan and Ebola viruses both come from the orthoebola virus family, but they have different proteins and genetic components, so the immune response to each virus is different.

In a global first, Uganda's Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners on Feb.03 launched a first-ever clinical efficacy trial for a vaccine from Ebola from the ...

The Sudan and Ebola viruses both come from the orthoebolavirus family, but they have different proteins and genetic components, so the immune response to each virus is different.

Sudan virus disease is essentially a disease very similar to Ebola. The Ebola virus has caused several high-profile outbreaks. The west Africa 2014-16 outbreak was the largest with 28,600 cases and 11 ...

The Sudan and Ebola viruses both come from the orthoebolavirus family, but they have different proteins and genetic components, so the immune response to each virus is different.

Now, just two years later, on January 30, 2025, Uganda announced its latest Sudan Ebola outbreak. The Ministry of Health identified a 32-year-old male nurse who had died as the first documented case.

In 2022, during the previous outbreak of Ebola disease (also from the Sudan species of the virus) in Uganda, a randomized protocol for candidate vaccines was developed. Principal investigators ...

The Sudan virus belongs to the same family as the Ebola virus. The announcement came after the death of a 32-year-old nurse in the capital, Kampala, who tested positive for the virus during a ...

The Sudan vaccine is similarly designed vaccine to Ervebo. It is said to be one of the most promising types of vaccine against Ebola and other so-called filoviruses, including Marburg.