Scientists suspect the first person infected with Ebola in an outbreak acquired the virus through contact with an infected animal or eating its raw meat. Uganda’s last outbreak, discovered in ...

Ebola was discovered in 1976 in simultaneous outbreaks in South Sudan and Congo, where it occurred in a village near the Ebola River, after which the disease is named.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has voiced its concern over the reappearance and subsequent spread of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a territory formerly known as Zaire. The ...

Since 1976, there have been about 30 recorded Ebola outbreaks that have infected humans. Note the long periods of inactivity, including a thirteen year stretch between 1980 and 1993. CDC / WHO ...

A second Ebola patient, a four-year-old child, died last week, the World Health Organization said, citing the country's health ministry File photo: A Ugandan doctor vaccinates the contact of a patient ...