The Ebola virus disease outbreak now ravaging parts of West Africa is the largest on record. In fact, West Africa has seen more cases of the disease in 2014 than have been seen in all other ...

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, West Africa is facing a new outbreak of Ebola. A global emergency stockpile of Ebola vaccine is being deployed to curb the epidemic, although experts are confident ...

The outbreak was confirmed in Uganda's capital Kampala following the death of a male nurse. It was the ninth time Uganda has ...

Vaccines have been used to help control the spread of Ebola outbreaks in Guinea and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. More than 1,600 people have received Ebola virus vaccinations in Guinea ...

An epidemic of the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa is now "out of control" with more than 60 outbreak hotspots, the medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said. "The epidemic is now out ...

He was asked by the CDC to travel to Sierra Leone, one of the countries hit hardest by the Ebola virus. During his trip Dr. Ksiazek stayed primarily in Sierra Leone's capital city of Freetown.

S ix years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility of a global outbreak. This was the first time many had ever heard of the ...

Doctors have been told to look out for symptoms of the disease and travellers returning from West Africa are urged to ... deadliest diseases known to man, Ebola has already claimed more than ...

and epidemiologists were the creation of the African Union Mission to Ebola Outbreak in West Africa (ASEOWA). "The health emergency workforce was born out of the lessons learnt from the Ebola mission, ...

The test did yield a few false positives, giving it a specificity of 92 percent, but overall the results bode well for ReEBOV’s continued use as a quick Ebola diagnostic in West Africa. “This is an ...

Peter Loftus is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal in Philadelphia covering the pharmaceutical and medical-device ...