Since 1976, there have been about 30 recorded Ebola outbreaks that have infected humans. Note the long periods of inactivity, including a thirteen year stretch between 1980 and 1993. CDC / WHO ...

The second-deadliest Ebola epidemic in history, it has killed more than 1,600 people so far and the numbers are rising. Haitian doctor Marie Roseline Darnycka Belizaire is helping lead the WHO's ...

Health workers have been vaccinating people against Ebola to prevent the spread of the virus The UN's global health body says the Ebola outbreak in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo is ...

The case fatality rate (CFR) for that infamous Canadian outbreak was 38.59 percent, just a tad below the 40 percent death rate for Ebola. The often fatal Ebola virus disease (EVD) and Ebola ...

Marburg virus, a close relative of the Ebola virus, causes viral hemorrhagic fever with a fatality rate averaging 50%. In ...