The second-largest, second-deadliest Ebola outbreak in history has spread to a major city. Butembo, a bustling city of almost a million people in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, is ...

This is the 10th Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the most severe there since 1976, when scientists first identified the virus near the eponymous Ebola River.

Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a disease caused by one of five different Ebola viruses. Four of the strains can cause severe illness in humans and animals. The fifth, Reston virus, has caused illness ...

Ebola causes viral hemorrhagic fever and kills up to 90% of people who catch it. It's named after the Ebola River in DRC, where one of first outbreaks occurred in 1976.

Two Americans with Ebola to be flown back to U.S. for treatment 02:29. Amid fears that air travelers could spread Ebola to other countries, many are asking questions about the disease and how it ...

Ebola was discovered in 1976 in two simultaneous outbreaks in South Sudan and Congo, where it occurred in a village near the Ebola River, after which the disease is named. Filed under diseases ...

First discovered in 1976 near the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ebola, or Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) is caused by a number of different viruses, usually found in sub-Saharan ...

The story of how Ebola got its name is short and somewhat random, according to Piot's account. Late one night, the group of scientists discussed over Kentucky bourbon what the virus they were ...

Ebola was discovered in 1976 in two simultaneous outbreaks in South Sudan and Congo, where it occurred in a village near the Ebola River, after which the disease is named.

Ebola was discovered in 1976 amid two simultaneous outbreaks in South Sudan and Congo, where it occurred in a village near the Ebola River, after which the disease is named.

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda’s Ebola caseload increased to 14 in the last week, Africa’s top public health agency said Thursday, with a new cluster emerging from a 4-year-old child who ...

A trial vaccine known as rVSV-ZEBOV, used to vaccinate 3,000 people at risk of infection during an outbreak of the Zaire strain of Ebola in eastern Congo between 2018 and 2020, proved effective in ...