This year's Ebola outbreak in Africa is by far the worst the continent has seen since 1976, when the virus was first discovered. The first outbreak in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya remains free from Ebola as test results show that a sick woman does not have the deadly hemorrhagic fever, while neighboring Uganda and Congo battle a stubborn outbreak of ...

A nurse in Uganda ... outbreak in West Africa killed more than 11,000 people, the disease’s largest death toll. Ebola was discovered in 1976 in two simultaneous outbreaks in South Sudan and ...

Ebola first emerged in 1976 in outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire) and South Sudan (then Sudan), and tracked to bush-meat. Results from virus sequencing of samples from the ...

Uganda has had five Ebola outbreaks since 2000, the second-highest in Africa after the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The team confirmed that the patient had died of the Sudan Virus Disease ...