The current Ebola outbreak began last summer in the country ... This is only the fifth declaration of its kind in the organization’s history. The region is also grappling with a long-term ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Early on Saturday, Dr. Kent Brantley, an American doctor who got Ebola while treating patients in Liberia, was evacuated by air ambulance en route back to the U.S. Now Emory University has ...