The scientist who helped discover Ebola in 1976 says the latest outbreak poses a serious threat in Central Africa — but fears ...

Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), which publishes CIDRAP News, said the media and even some public ...

As cases grow, a massive deployment of resources is critical. Anthony Banbury is a former United Nations undersecretary ...

In one worst-case scenario projected, more than 20,000 cases would occur within three months if only 1 in 5 infected people ...

Dr. Spencer is an emergency doctor and a professor at Brown. He contracted Ebola in 2014 after treating patients in Guinea. As soon as I heard about the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of ...

African health officials say there is a new Ebola outbreak in the Central African country of Congo, with at least 246 suspected cases and 65 deaths. The severe disease that is often fatal was first ...

Yes. Scientists have developed treatments that improve survival for Ebola virus disease caused by Zaire ebolavirus, especially when patients receive care early. But treatments that work for one ...

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Africa’s top public health agency confirmed a new Ebola outbreak in Congo on Friday after 65 deaths and 246 suspected cases were recorded in the country’s remote Ituri province. Health officials are ...

The number of Ebola cases has been growing – and growing by a lot — each day since the World Health Organization declared a public health emergency on Saturday. The latest toll? More than 600 ...

Six years after COVID-19 swept the world, the news cycle is once again abuzz with reports of deadly diseases. But that doesn't mean they shouldn't be taken seriously, according to Dr. Peter Hotez, ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that the latest outbreak of a rare strain of the Ebola virus in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda is a “public health emergency of ...