Symptoms of Ebola can sometimes be confused with other illnesses such as malaria and typhoid. The virus has been circulating in rural parts of Uganda since September but an outbreak in an urban ...

Ebola virus, being highly pathogenic for humans and non-human primates and the subject of former weapons programmes, is now one of the most feared pathogens worldwide. In addition, the lack of pre ...

Mortality rates from Ebola outbreaks can be as high as 90%, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and ...

It is still at the same intensity and is still as dangerous as it was before.” The Ebola virus first appeared in 1976 in two simultaneous outbreaks, one in what is now Nzara, South Sudan ...

Had they been, and had they understood that he was the first case in an outbreak of Ebola virus disease, they might have directed some timely attention to an important unknown: How did this boy ...

More than 40 years after it was identified, the Ebola virus continues to defy drugs, treatment plans—and experts’ best efforts to solve its mysteries. Ebola vaccine has to be kept cold.

(NEXSTAR) – Health officials in Rwanda are dealing with the country’s first outbreak of the Marburg virus, an Ebola-like disease which, if left untreated, has a fatality rate of up to 88%.