New research this month shows that the experimental antiviral obeldesivir prevented up to 100% of deaths in monkeys infected ...

The pill protected 80 per cent of the cynomolgus macaques and 100 per cent of the rhesus macaques, which are biologically ...

The country is presently battling its eighth Ebola outbreak, confirmed by the Ministry of Health in January, with two ...

One of the biggest hurdles in controlling the outbreak is the absence of an approved vaccine for the Sudan strain of Ebola, which is responsible for the current infections. Unlike the Zaire strain ...

Uganda has launched a trial vaccination programme against the Sudan strain of Ebola. Existing vaccines are for the Zaire strain of Ebola, which was behind recent outbreaks in neighbouring ...

A vaccine was only widely approved in 2019, and while two intravenous antibody treatments improve outcomes, they require costly cold storage.

The appearance in West Africa of Zaire ebolavirus was initially ... Prior to 2014, the largest outbreak of Ebola virus disease on record, caused by Sudan ebolavirus, resulted in 425 cases and ...

In 2022, during a previous outbreak of Ebola from the Sudan strain in Uganda ... 3,000 individuals at risk during an outbreak of the Zaire strain of Ebola in eastern Congo from 2018 to 2020 ...

He declared that approved vaccines for Zaire species (EBV) of the Ebola virus are not available in Nigeria but can be obtained from the WHO Afro, although they do not protect against the Sudan ...