Ebola vaccine trial to begin in Uganda after new outbreak kills nurse

A medical worker disinfects a tent used for suspected Ebola victims in the village of Madudu, in the Mubende district of Uganda. Picture: Hajarah Nalwadda/AP

Ugandan officials are preparing to deploy a trial vaccine as part of efforts to stem an outbreak of Ebola in the capital Kampala.

A range of scientists are developing research protocols relating to the planned deployment of more than 2,000 doses of a candidate vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola, Pontiano Kaleebu, executive director of Uganda Virus Research Institute, said.