Ebola is endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This is the 10th outbreak the country has seen since 1976, the year that scientists first identified the deadly virus in the small ...

Ebola cases are very rare in the United States. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has for the first time approved a vaccine for the prevention of the deadly Ebola virus disease. The agency ...

The Ebola virus causes viral hemorrhagic fever, which according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), refers to a group of viruses that affect multiple organ systems in the ...

Ebola has flared up intermittently in Africa for more than 40 years, most notably during an outbreak between 2013 and 2016 that infected 28,000 people and took more than 11,000 lives.

The current Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo is now the world’s second-largest since 1976. More than 2,600 cases have been identified, and about two-thirds of those infected ...

A general view of a newly installed Ebola Treatment Unit, with 32 beds, also to be used as a research center for Ebola strains and vaccine trial, in Kampala, Uganda, December 9, 2022.

Ebola is a disease that would typically rank highly using the U.S. CDC’s tool because it gives more points to pathogens with a higher fatality rate. In 2022, ...

Ebola attacks a type of cell in blood vessels. Can early treatment help improve chances of survival? WSJ’s Jason Bellini has #TheShortAnswer. When Zafar Hussain arrived at the train station, he ...

Scientists are trying to develop a more practical and affordable treatment for Ebola. According to a new study, an experiment on monkeys has shown that Ebola can be cured with just a pill. First ...

Ebola is a terrifying virus which, if left untreated, causes bleeding inside the body and through the eyes, nose, mouth and rectum. Case fatality rates have varied from 25% to 90% in past ...

As the Ebola outbreak escalated in October and November, the WHO worked with global health experts to evaluate and prioritize candidate vaccines targeting the virus circulating in Uganda. These ...