Resources with keywords: sudan strain
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.