The Ebola virus infecting and killing people in West Africa is the worst recorded outbreak, according to the World Health Organization. The first case of Ebola in a patient diagnosed in a U.S ...

The virus is named after the Ebola River, in northern DRC, where it was first identified. Home to nine outbreaks since the disease’s discovery, ...

Ebola virus, formally called Zaire ebolavirus, is a rare virus that infects humans and nonhuman animals such as pigs and other primates.It is one among several viruses within the genus Ebolavirus ...

The Ebola outbreak has been centered in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, where authorities have been working to contain the virus. An Ebola survivors participates in a study launched in Monrovia ...

What makes this virus particularly dangerous is that humans can transmit it through contact with body fluids. The incubation period for the virus is 2–21 days, and initial symptoms are flu-like.

Ebola virus disease, sometimes known as EVD, is a highly infectious, usually fatal virus that leads to flu-like symptoms and severe internal bleeding. Efforts intensified to block spread of deadly ...

Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a severe, often fatal hemorrhagic disease that first appeared in 1976 in two simultaneous outbreaks. One outbreak was in Sudan and the other was in the Democratic ...

1. What is the Ebola virus's survival rate? The average Ebola survival rate is about 50 percent, according to the World Health Organization, but it varies greatly, in part because of the different ...

Until this week, the deadly Ebola virus that has claimed nearly 900 lives had seemed an ocean away. Now amid recent scares of infected Americans and patients possibly flying from Africa onto U.S. s… ...

As the deadly Ebola virus rises again in central Africa, health officials have decided to try a different approach to fight back –- rushing more than 7,500 doses of an experimental Ebola vaccine ...

Marburg virus causes severe viral hemorrhagic fever and 24% to 88% of people who contracted the disease in different outbreaks died. Latest U.S.