Resources with keywords: sudan strain
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Following the confirmation of an outbreak of Sudan virus disease – which belongs to the same family as Ebola virus disease – in Uganda today, World Health Organization (WHO) is mobilizing efforts to support the national health authorities to swiftly contain and end the outbreak.
The CDC is reporting a recently confirmed outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Uganda caused by Sudan virus (species Sudan ebolavirus) to summarize CDC’s recommendations for U.S. public health departments and clinicians, case identification and testing, and clinical laboratory biosafety considerations.
Current approved vaccines cannot control this outbreak because it’s being driven by a distant viral relative of Zaire ebolavirus, known as Sudan ebolavirus, which last caused an outbreak, also in Uganda, in 2012.
WHO declares outbreak in Uganda with a rare Ebola Sudan virus.
