Despite the known skepticism of its leader Robert F Kennedy Jr, the Department of Health and Human Services quietly announced ...

A Sudan Ebola vaccine, provided by the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), is being investigated in a Uganda vaccine trial that was launched just four days after the country declared an ...

An effort to test several Ebola Sudan vaccines in Uganda in 2022 was abandoned because the outbreak was contained before the trial could be done. This time, years of planning to persuade countries ...

More about IAVI's investigational Ebola Sudan vaccine candidate. In 2023, IAVI initiated a Phase 1 clinical trial of its rVSV-based Ebola Sudan vaccine candidate.

The World Health Organization director for Africa said Uganda has started a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola, for which there is currently no approved vaccine.

Uganda has had multiple Ebola outbreaks, including one in 2000 that killed hundreds. Tracing contacts is key to stemming the spread of Ebola, which manifests as a viral hemorrhagic fever.

This is Uganda's sixth outbreak of Ebola Sudan, which causes severe hemorrhagic fever disease with a case fatality rate of up to 50%. No licensed vaccines or therapeutics are available for Ebola ...