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 ...

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, West Africa is facing a new outbreak of Ebola. A global emergency stockpile of Ebola vaccine is being deployed to curb the epidemic, although experts are confident ...

Vaccines have been used to help control the spread of Ebola outbreaks in Guinea and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. More than 1,600 people have received Ebola virus vaccinations in Guinea ...

The outbreak was confirmed in Uganda's capital Kampala following the death of a male nurse. It was the ninth time Uganda has ...

He was asked by the CDC to travel to Sierra Leone, one of the countries hit hardest by the Ebola virus. During his trip Dr. Ksiazek stayed primarily in Sierra Leone's capital city of Freetown.

Doctors have been told to look out for symptoms of the disease and travellers returning from West Africa are urged to ... deadliest diseases known to man, Ebola has already claimed more than ...

The 2014-16 Ebola outbreak in West Africa killed more than 11,000 people, the disease’s largest death toll. Ebola was discovered in 1976 in simultaneous outbreaks in South Sudan and Congo ...

Ebola outbreaks usually occur in isolated villages connected by bad roads and trails, such as this one in the DRC. The 2014 outbreak in West Africa was different—it quickly spread to urban areas.

"We didn't know what it was. We had never experienced an infectious disease of such intensity," former president Ellen ...

Peter Loftus is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal in Philadelphia covering the pharmaceutical and medical-device ...