According to a new study, an experiment on monkeys has shown that Ebola can be cured with just a pill. First discovered in ...

Scientists suspect the first person infected with Ebola in an outbreak acquired the virus through contact with an infected animal or eating its raw meat. Uganda’s last outbreak, discovered in ...

Ebola was discovered in 1976 in simultaneous outbreaks in South Sudan and Congo, where it occurred in a village near the Ebola River, after which the disease is named.