The World Health Organization (WHO) today confirmed that the Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

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 ...

The first human outbreaks occurred in 1976, one in northern Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) in central Africa: and the other, in southern Sudan (now South Sudan). The virus is named after ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The minimum incubation period was established as 2 days in 1976 during the first described outbreak of Zaire ...

Discovered in 1976, Ebola is rare, deadly and has multiple variations. There is a vaccine for the Zaire type, now trials for another are underway. Ebola damages blood vessels and causes severe, ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at Ebola, a virus with a high fatality rate that was first identified in Africa in 1976. Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a disease caused by one of five different Ebola viruses. Four ...