Uganda on Monday started the first ever vaccination trial for the Sudan species of the Ebola virus four days after an outbreak was confirmed, the World Health Organization announced. It is the sixth time Uganda has been hit by an outbreak of the Ebola Sudan virus,

Test results on the sick people are pending, and a top WHO official said the outbreak response is proceeding rapidly.

Ugandan authorities have begun a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola that has killed one person in the outbreak declared last week

After the first Ebola death in Uganda in years, a senior health official says authorities in the African nation are "in full control of the situation."

A Ugandan doctor prepares to vaccinate the contact of a patient who had tested positive, during the launch of the vaccination for the Sudan strain of Ebola virus with a trial vaccine at the Mulago Guest House (Isolation centre) in Kampala,