In the shadows of Python Cave, Uganda, a leopard leaps from a guano mound—formed by bat excrement—and sinks its teeth into a ...

Researchers at Wageningen University & Research (WUR) are contributing to the development of a new vaccine designed to provide broad protection ...

Vaccine development could help lessen the burden. Most often, Ebola outbreaks have been caused by the Zaire type of the Ebola ...

Ebola was discovered near the Ebola River, during two simultaneous outbreaks in 1976 — in Zaire, now DRC, and South Sudan. Ebola virus disease (EVD) — named after the river — is the ...

The Ebola virus devastated west Africa in 2014, claiming over 11,000 lives in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. It was the largest Ebola outbreak since the virus had first been discovered in the ...

Ebola virus is actually a group of viruses, known as orthoebolaviruses. These viruses first appeared in humans during two 1976 outbreaks in Africa, but they likely have existed for a very long time.

Ebola is a viral haemorrhagic fever that was first discovered in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Six of the virus species are known to cause disease in humans -- Zaire, Sudan, Bundibugyo ...

Of four species of Ebola viruses that can infect humans, Ebola virus species Zaire ebolavirus is the deadliest, with fatality rates of 70% to 90% if left untreated, the CDC said.

Uganda's Minister of Health Jane Ruth Aceng receives boxes containing one of three candidate vaccines against the Sudan strain of the Ebola virus, in Entebbe, Uganda Dec. 8, 2022.