Monkeys infected with Ebola can be cured with a pill, according to a new study out Friday that could pave the way for more practical, affordable treatments in humans.First identified in 1976 and ...

The biggest filovirus outbreak, caused by Ebola virus, occurred in three West African countries from 2014 to 2016. It killed more than 11,000 people and infected more than 28,000.

“This includes viruses in the paramyxovirus family, such as Hendra and Nipah virus, lyssaviruses like rabies, filoviruses, which includes Ebola and Marburg, and then of course, coronaviruses.” There ...

The World Health Organization speculated that a mass poisoning event was behind the deaths of 60 people. But African experts ...

Ebola and Marburg are severe and highly infectious filoviruses that come from bats and kill many they infect. There have been several large outbreaks of both infections in Africa over the last ...

A rapidly spreading unknown illness has killed 53 people in Congo, with preliminary investigations linking the outbreak to children who ate bat meat in January.

CASES of a mystery disease which has killed over 50 people and left hundreds sick in the Congo could rise and spread to the UK, an expert has warned. The outbreaks in two distant villages in ...

Over 50 people are dead in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo due to an unknown virus, according to the World Health Organization. The WHO's African office said that the outbreak ...

The outbreak has been traced, tentatively, to three children who ate a bat, the W.H.O. said, and known threats like Ebola and Marburg have been ruled out. By Eve Sampson An unidentified illness ...

Ebola death raising concerns over outbreak control Health officials work on contact tracing as fears grow amid inadequate ...