Ebola

WHO and the Uganda Health Ministry have launched a first-ever vaccine trial for the species of Ebola at the center of an ongoing outbreak in Uganda’s capital city.

Healio spoke with experts about how the new administration could affect a range of important health issues, including vaccines, nutrition, chronic conditions, insurance and reproductive health care.

Health officials in Uganda confirmed there is an Ebola virus outbreak in the capital city and that one person has died.

Multidrug-resistant bacteria were believed to spread to rooms in a Japanese pediatric ward through sink drains and plumbing, as replacing contaminated sinks did not end the outbreak, according to a recent study.

HOUSTON — Uganda rapidly scaled up screening during a rare outbreak of Ebola virus in 2022 using a plan that researchers said could be a blueprint for future responses.

The Alaska Department of Health recently reported the first death from Alaskapox, an orthopoxvirus that can be transmitted from animals to humans.

Patients with confirmed Ebola virus disease were around half as likely to die if they were vaccinated against the virus than if they were not, results from a study showed.

The minimum incubation period for Ebola virus may not actually be 2 days, researchers wrote in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

Health officials on Wednesday declared an end to an Ebola outbreak in Uganda that killed 55 people and infected at least 142 in less than 4 months.

Updated COVID-19 shots, including bivalent boosters, dominated vaccine news in 2022, but good news also came for vaccines against malaria, Ebola and cancer.