The deadly Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa has hit “unprecedented” proportions, according to relief workers on the ground. “The epidemic is out of control,” Dr. Bart Janssens, director ...

African nations agree on a joint strategy to try to stop spread of Ebola virus ... “One, (this is) the first time in West Africa that we have such an outbreak,” he said.

More than two years after it began, an Ebola outbreak that claimed 11,315 lives — the deadliest in history — appears to be over, the World Health Organization said Thursday. The WHO reported ...

The West African Ebola outbreak is finally starting to approach manageable levels, after nearly 18 excruciating months and over 11,000 lost lives. Here’s ...

The Ebola virus mutated early on in the 2013-2016 West African epidemic, taking on a simple change that made it infect human cells more easily. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience ...

Beginning in December 2013, the Ebola virus spread like wildfire across Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, killing an estimated 11,310 people over the course of three years. The outbreak moved ...

The latest on the deadly virus and the people working to contain it. — -- The world’s worst ever Ebola outbreak continues to spread in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, where at least 1,201 ...

Despite efforts to control the outbreak of Ebola virus disease in West Africa, substantial transmission continues. As we reach the 1-year anniversary of the first known case from this outbreak, the ...

The team found that the strain of the Ebola virus circulating resembled that of the Makano variant, responsible for the large-scale 2014-2016 outbreak in West Africa.

A new analysis of the Ebola genome shows the dreaded virus acquired several new mutations during the course of the 2013-2016 West African Epidemic, making it even better at infecting human cells.

Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone have been struggling since March to stop what has become the largest Ebola outbreak ever recorded. The disease is causing widespread fear and disruption in West ...

This program was part of the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health conference on the Ebola virus outbreak in Western Africa. Health experts in a series of panels discussed ...