First identified in 1976 and thought to have crossed over from bats, Ebola is a deadly viral disease spread through direct ...

The Ebola virus disease outbreak now ravaging parts of West Africa is the largest on record. In fact, West Africa has seen more cases of the disease in 2014 than have been seen in all other ...

Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility of a ...

Africa’s top public health agency says that Uganda’s Ebola caseload increased to 14 in the last week with a new cluster emerging from a 4-year-old child who recently died of the infectious disease.

A decade after the worst of the virus’ 40 outbreaks killed 11,300 people, individuals who still bear its physical and mental ...

New research this month shows that the experimental antiviral obeldesivir prevented up to 100% of deaths in monkeys infected ...

In her new book, A History of the World in Six Plagues, Edna Bonhomme describes a 2014 epidemic that decimated a neighborhood — possibly foreshadowing what's to come ...

the Africa CDC Director-General said during a virtual press briefing on health emergencies in Africa no new Ebola cases have ...

“Uganda’s Ebola outbreak occurred on the same day as ... including those working on infectious disease prevention in Africa—continue to go unpaid for services rendered, in some cases ...

The pill protected 80 per cent of the cynomolgus macaques and 100 per cent of the rhesus macaques, which are biologically ...

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