While the world has been focused on COVID-19, the fight against Ebola has continued. This virus, which first emerged in 1976, is highly lethal and has caused devastating outbreaks across Africa. In ...

There’s an ingenious moment in Wolfgang Petersen’s 1995 film Outbreak, a disease-themed thriller that follows the Ebola-like Motaba virus as it overtakes a small Northern California town, when an ...

Today, even the world’s best hospitals rely upon a thermometer (a 400-year-old technology) to decide who to quarantine for Ebola. The ambiguity in our current approaches to diagnosing Ebola has ...

Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility of a global outbreak. This was the first time many had ever heard of the virus, ...

Although outbreaks of Ebola virus are rare, the disease is severe and often fatal, with few treatment options. Rather than targeting the virus itself, one promising therapeutic approach would be to ...

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A nurse wears protective medical clothing and prepares a syringe by drawing a dose from a vaccine vial during the launch of an Ebola trial vaccination campaign at Mulago Referral Hospital in Kampala ...

WHO bolsters the Ebola disease outbreak response in Uganda. (WHO photo) The World Health Organization (WHO) continues to support Uganda as the Government there responds to a deadly Ebola outbreak, ...

DAKAR, Senegal — Congo’s authorities announced this week a new Ebola outbreak, which has killed more than a dozen people in a southern province. Samples analyzed at the National Institute for ...

Health officials have recorded 28 suspected cases and 15 fatalities so far in the latest outbreak of the deadly virus, which has claimed thousands of lives in previous outbreaks in the Central African ...