It's a virus that can strike with unrelenting force. The kind of care need to knock it out is often not fully available in a ...

The Ebola outbreak that emerged in Guinea in mid-February was declared over today. It was the first time the disease resurfaced in the country since the deadly outbreak in West Africa that ended in ...

A mother and her 5-year-old son in Guinea have tested positive for Ebola, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced last week (March 18). The patients, who have been transported to a treatment ...

The only possible place to encounter Ebola in Conakry is the main treatment unit, yet elsewhere in Guinea the virus is thriving in a febrile atmosphere of deep mistrust and swirling conspiracy theory.

In this photograph from 2015, an IFRC worker sprays disinfecting chlorine solution on the gloved hands of a fellow worker in Conakry, Guinea. The country was one of the worst-affected in the 2014-2016 ...

Ebola was first identified in 1976 and since then, more than 30 outbreaks have been recorded, mostly in Central and West Africa. Some remained small and localised, while others turned into major ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Hundreds of possible contacts of eight people infected with Ebola in Guinea have been vaccinated with an experimental Merck vaccine to try and halt a flare-up of the deadly disease, ...

Chief lab technician Boré Kaliva at the Prefecture Hospital in Yomou, Guinea, demonstrates the use of the Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) for Ebola virus in 2016. (Alaine Kathryn Knipes/CDC) The U.S.