Uganda celebrates a major health victory, officially declaring the end of the Ebola Sudan Virus Disease outbreak after 42 ...

WHO protocols, this duration without new cases was required before the outbreak could be officially declared over.

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 ...

The Ebola virus was identified in 1976 during epidemics of haemorrhagic fever in southern Sudan and northern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). The average mortality rate of Ebola virus ...

Filoviruses are among the globe's most lethal—indeed, so dangerous they can be handled only in high-security laboratories.

Uganda declared the end of an Ebola virus outbreak Saturday, which has killed at least two people in the east African nation ...

Yet, more than five decades after the discovery of the Marburg virus and nearly 50 years after the first outbreak involving its infamous cousin—the Ebola virus—questions still abound about the ...

It said the declaration followed 42 days "without a new case since the last confirmed patient was discharged." ...