Traditional West African funerals, at which mourners extensively touch and kiss the dead, are “superspreader” events for transmission of the Ebola virus, says a new study, which identified ...

The paper, titled 'Transmission of Ebola Viruses: What We Know and What We Do Not Know," takes pains to note that respiratory transmission of Ebola is unproven and that contact with infected body ...

As leading Ebola virologist Heinz Feldmann recently said, the discussion of Ebola prevention “should be fact-based; it should be data-based.” Interpretation of those facts and data is often ...

Fears are growing that Ebola may be changing in a way that scientists don’t yet understand—by becoming airborne, for example. But scientists say Ebola’s transmission route hasn’t changed.

Ebola was an interesting case study for our mathematical modeling, as there were two relatively large and well-documented outbreaks where the impact of efforts to control the virus was evident ...

Head researcher David Sanders said “while bird transmission of Ebola is by no means certain, the resemblance among all these viruses should encourage health officials to be on guard for it.” Pigs ...

Critics put a months-old fact-check about Ebola back under the microscope last week after they said an article in a scholarly medical journal supported a claim made by George Will that Ebola had ...

Ebola isn’t anywhere near as contagious as the flu, for example. Or measles, which is much more of a threat in the United States now that people are no longer routinely vaccinating their children .

As we think about the best ways to limit Ebola transmission, and how to treat those people who might be at risk for Ebola infection, let's acknowledge that each of us has, ...

Musa Pabai left an Ebola treatment center in Liberia in November, grateful to have survived a disease that has killed nearly 10,000 people across West Africa but fearing he still could pose grave ...

In the first known case of Ebola transmission outside of Africa, a nurse in Spain has contracted the deadly virus after caring for a sick priest who had been flown back from West Africa for ...