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 ...

Nine days before the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Ebola epidemic, a “mystery hemorrhagic fever” was spotted by HealthMap, software that mines government websites, social networks, and ...

Danielle Ompad, associate professor of epidemiology and associate dean for ... is fighting against an outbreak of the deadly Ebola viral disease in the U.S. "I'm unusual for people of my ...

Responding to the WHO’s declaration, Tunis Yahya of the nation’s Ebola Response Center told The New York Times, “It’s kind of like a mixed emotion. . . . People are happy, but also many are depressed ...