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Ugandan pharmaceutical company Dei BioPharma has filed a patent application in the United States for a new Ebola vaccine platform designed to protect against multiple strains of the deadly virus, a development the company says could strengthen Africa’s ability to respond faster and more independently when outbreaks hit. The filing, submitted to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, covers a …

Uganda’s ministry of Health confirmed the country’s first Ebola Bundibugyo case on May 15, 2026, a 59-year-old Congolese man who travelled from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) seeking care at Kibuli Muslim Hospital in Kampala. He died in the Intensive Care Unit with bleeding symptoms a few days later. On Monday, May 25, 2026, the ministry of Health confirmed …

Dr. Mathias Magoola – New mRNA innovation targets major outbreak-causing ebolaviruses, including Zaire, Sudan, Bundibugyo and the West African/Makona lineage KAMPALA, Uganda — Dei BioPharma has announced the submission of a utility patent application to the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a next-generation mRNA vaccine platform designed to provide broad protection against the world’s most dangerous Ebola-causing viruses. × …

The ministry of Health has confirmed three new cases of Ebola Virus Disease, bringing the total number of confirmed infections recorded in Uganda to five. The new cases include a Ugandan driver who transported the country’s first confirmed patient and later succumbed to complications linked to the disease, as well as a health worker who had been involved in managing …

Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo — The reported attack by angry residents on a health facility linked to Ebola treatment efforts in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has once again highlighted the complex intersection between public health emergencies, community trust, insecurity, and misinformation in fragile regions confronting disease outbreaks.   According to local health workers, residents stormed and burned a …

Ituri & North Kivu, DR Congo — As health authorities continue efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, residents in the heavily affected provinces of Ituri and North Kivu say the crisis is being compounded not only by delayed response systems, but also by the rapid spread of misinformation and growing public complacency toward preventive …

Kampala– As we are left with few days to the State of the Nation Address where President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is expected to address the Country men on a number of issues in the country, the Parliament has issued new guidelines to be followed. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni  According to Mr. Adolf Mwesige, the Clerk to Parliament, this has been as a …

Geneva, Switzerland — Uganda’s latest engagement with the World Health Organization (WHO) over the Ebola/Bundibugyo Virus Disease situation has once again placed the country at the centre of an increasingly important global policy debate: how governments balance public health protection with economic continuity in an interconnected world. During a briefing convened in Geneva by WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Uganda …

Uganda is set to receive a team of Russian health specialists to help strengthen the country’s response to the ongoing Ebola outbreak, as fears grow over the virus spreading across the Great Lakes region. The support comes amid heightened regional surveillance following confirmed Ebola cases in both Uganda and the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where health authorities say …

Viewers: 90,004 By Spy Uganda Ugandan health authorities have traced and isolated 127 people, most of them frontline health workers, in an aggressive effort to prevent the spread of Ebola after two imported cases of the Sudan strain were confirmed in Kampala. Officials from the Ministry of Health said the two patients, both nationals of the Democratic Republic of …