A second person infected with the Ebola virus has died in Uganda, the health ministry said Thursday, after a family exposed to the disease quietly crossed the border from Congo.

Scientists estimate that one person infected with measles can transmit the disease to as many as 18 others; for Ebola, that number is around two. This is because unlike influenza or measles, Ebola ...

The researchers estimated it would take, on average, 2.7 months for one Ebola-infected person to leave the country — if air travel were at the levels it was at the end of last year.

Nearly a year after the Ebola epidemic infected more than 28,000 people and killed more than 10,000, researchers identified 14 new cases of Ebola in an outbreak hotspot in Sierra Leone in ...

The fact that an Ebola-infected American was able to walk into a Georgia hospital today after his return to the United States surprised even medical experts familiar with the ravages of the deadly ...

So far, the virus has infected nearly 6,000 people in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Senegal. What is Ebola? The Ebola virus was discovered in two African countries (Sudan and Congo ...

Can you catch Ebola from a blanket or a pillow that an infected person used days ago? What about from a doorknob in his apartment? How infectious, exactly, is this deadly virus?

Up to three Ebola-infected people could embark on overseas flights every month from the three most-affected African countries, according to a new study that projected travel patterns based on ...

Ebola Is Now Killing People Who Aren’t Even Infected. Matt Hongoltz-Hetling. Updated Mon, December 7, ... estimate that for each person Ebola has killed through direct infection, ...

Up to three Ebola-infected travelers might board an international flight each month in West Africa, according to a new study, and potentially spread the deadly virus to other countries. Scientists ...

New research on the 2014 ebola outbreak reveals important new details about how ebola spread so quickly across Western Africa–and what can be done to stop the next outbreak before it becomes a full ...