Uganda's Ministry of Health together with its partners, the World Health Organization (WHO) Country Office and, the Africa ...

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

Scientists have found that an oral antiviral drug successfully prevents monkeys from dying after an Ebola infection, an ...

As well as protecting the monkeys from death, the treatment also evoked an immune response. Senior author Dr Thomas Geisbert ...

SCIENTISTS have found a pill that offers ‘100 per cent protection’ against Ebola – sparking hopes of eradicating the deadly eye-bleeding disease. Ebola is a rare but severe ...

A day after getting exposed to the Ebola virus, ten monkeys then received an Obeldesivir pill daily for ten days, while three control monkeys received no treatment and died. The study found that ...

Dr. Herbert Luswata, president of the Uganda Medical Association, said that the Ebola response had been badly hampered by the ...

Monkeys infected with Ebola can be cured with a pill, according to a new study out Friday that could pave the way for more ...

Africa’s top public health agency says that Uganda’s Ebola caseload increased to 14 in the last week with a new cluster ...

In her new book, A History of the World in Six Plagues, Edna Bonhomme describes a 2014 epidemic that decimated a neighborhood ...