Emergency vaccination during outbreaks of diseases like cholera, Ebola and measles have over the past quarter-century reduced ...

Ebola is not well suited to any of these processes, which are designed to ensure that the biological agent survives the traumatic experience of being fired from a rocket, ...

The vaccine roll-outs seem to have had an impressive impact, reducing deaths by nearly 60%. The number of overall cases of ...

LONDON -- A young child who became the first cross-border case of Ebola in the world's second-largest outbreak has died, health officials said. The 5-year-old boy sought medical care at a hospital ...

Ebola is endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This is the 10th outbreak the country has seen since 1976, the year that scientists first identified the deadly virus in the small ...

An Ebola outbreak has been reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). At least a dozen cases of the hemorrhagic fever have been reported in the Bolamba health zone, which is located ...

Meanwhile, since the first Ebola case was identified in 1976 there have been only 1,600 Ebola-related deaths. That, though, is not exactly good news for human populations.

Ebola isn’t anywhere near as contagious as the flu, for example. Or measles, which is much more of a threat in the United States now that people are no longer routinely vaccinating their children.

And all Ebola treatment units in the outbreak zone will now only administer the two most effective monoclonal antibody drugs, according to the WHO’s director of health emergencies, Mike Ryan.

Ebola, a highly contagious disease mostly seen in Africa, causes fever, fatigue and bleeding from the eyes and the nose. The virus kills about half of those it infects.