Discussion with a WHO outbreak response leader provided key takeaways for controlling other hemorrhagic fever outbreaks.

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it could be applied to lumpy skin disease virus, a double-stranded DNA virus that primarily affects cattle, causing ...

Recurrent outbreaks of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) pose substantial threats to Africa's health systems. Despite advancements such as vaccines and therapeutics, successful outbreak containment ...

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Understanding Ebola The Sudan virus disease is a severe, often fatal illness affecting humans and other primates that is due to Orthoebolavirus sudanense (Sudan virus), a viral species belonging to ...

The country declared an Ebola outbreak on Jan. 30 after a 32-year-old nurse died of the disease in the capital. The second fatality was a four-and-a-half-year-old child from Kibuli, a suburb of ...