There was a certain kind of quiet hopefulness when, in late April this year, the last Ebola patient of the West African epidemic – a two-year-old boy – walked out of a treatment facility in ...

Health officials are fighting to contain an outbreak in Congo. The current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the second largest in history and the worst the country has ...

In September 2014, as the deadly Ebola virus overwhelmed West Africa ... terms of military expenditures—can act as some sort of savior. That’s unlikely, because responding to a pandemic ...

Reporting from BETHESDA, Md. — U.S. officials leading the fight against history’s worst outbreak of Ebola have said they know the ways the virus is spread and how to stop it. They say that ...

151; -- Origin of the disease The first reported case of the deadly virus came in 1976 and it is named after the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of Congo which was where it was discovered.

An Ebola outbreak has been reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). At least a dozen cases of the hemorrhagic fever have been reported in the Bolamba health zone, which is located ...

An international team of scientists has sequenced the RNA of 99 Ebola virus samples collected during the early weeks of the outbreak in Sierra Leone. The feat, described Thursday in the journal ...

Five of these deaths occurred in people who were confirmed cases. First discovered in 1976 near the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ebola, or Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) is caused ...

In research released this month, scientists report that an once-daily experimental pill dramatically reduced the high fatality rate of Ebola infection, at least in nonhuman primates. Researchers ...

Ugandan officials confirmed an Ebola outbreak in the east African country's capital, Kampala, last week. One nurse died on Jan. 29, and Ugandan authorities have confirmed two other Ebola cases as ...

01. The head of the World Health Organization’s health emergencies program said Saturday that six people who were in contact with Uganda’s latest Ebola case have become ill, though it’s not ...