Uganda discharged on Tuesday the last eight patients who recovered from Ebola, and there were no other positive cases in the outbreak declared last month.

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 ...

On 18 February, Byegarazo and seven others walked out of treatment centers in Kampala and Mbale, a city in Eastern Uganda, after being declared Ebola-free.

However, the Ebola outbreak we are dealing with in Uganda is from the Sudan species of the virus, for which there’s no approved vaccine or treatment.

According to the World Health Organization, an outbreak is over after 42 consecutive days with no new cases, or twice the incubation period of Ebola.

Kampala, Uganda — A nurse in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, has died of Ebola, a health official said Thursday, in the first recorded fatality since the last outbreak ended in 2023. Diana Atwine ...

A nurse in Uganda has died of Ebola in the first recorded fatality since the country’s last outbreak of the disease ended in early 2023, a health official said Thursday.

Uganda has had six previous Ebola outbreaks, including the two largest Ebola Sudan outbreaks on record. One of those, which involved 164 cases and 55 deaths, occurred in 2022.

Uganda discharged on Tuesday the last eight patients who recovered from Ebola, health authorities reported, and there were no other positive cases in the outbreak declared last month.

The vaccines are intended to be developed for use against Marburg virus and Sudan ebolavirus, two hemorrhagic fevers in the ...