When Ebola virus came for the first time to a small village in Guinea, the victim was a toddler, who later became known to the world as Patient Zero. His name was Emile Ouamouno. "Emile liked to ...

Protocols hospitals use to control the spread of the Ebola virus are similar to the ones they have been using to fight other infectious diseases. Medical experts are still unified in the belief ...

The news announced last week that preliminary tests on a new vaccine for Ebola were 100 percent effective came as a cause for excitement. The study, published in The Lancet, was run by the World ...

Tens of thousands of doses of experimental Ebola vaccines could be available for "real-world" testing in West Africa as soon as January as long as they are deemed safe in soon to start trials, the ...

NewLink Genetics Corp, which licensed an Ebola vaccine developed by Canadian government scientists, has enough doses on hand to launch the first human safety trial of an Ebola vaccine this summer ...

Ebola, which emerged in Democratic Republic of Congo in 1976, is one of the most aggressive pathogens known to humankind, and victims tend to die a few days after showing symptoms.