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.

Ebola was first identified in Zaire (now Congo) in 1976, near the Congo River tributary that gave the virus its name. It has been terrifying and mystifying the world ever since. Ebola is incurable ...

Besides that, given the sporadic nature of the virus spread ... against multiple types of Ebola, unlike existing antibody treatments that only work against the Zaire strain.

Ebola virus, being highly pathogenic for humans and ... The first cases of EBOV were reported from Sudan and Zaire in 1976, but the virus has only received real attention from scientists since ...

Ebola virus is an infectious agent and one of the ... The first infections with this viral genus were reported in Zaire, close to the river Ebola. Prasad et al. assess four therapeutics in ...

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 ...

Ebola is a viral haemorrhagic fever that was first discovered in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Six of the virus species are known to cause disease in humans -- Zaire, Sudan, Bundibugyo ...

Symptoms of Ebola Virus Disease include fever ... There are 5 distinct species of the virus: Bundibugyo, Zaire (the most fatal of all the five strains and responsible for the most EVD outbreaks ...

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 ...

First identified in 1976 in then-Zaire, the Ebola virus is transmitted to humans by infected animals. Human-to-human transmission occurs through body fluids. Its main symptoms are fever ...