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.

Most of the time, the virus wins.” The most lethal strain, Ebola Zaire, attacks every organ, including the skin, and kills between eight and nine of every ten people it infects. The virus strain ...

Since a 1976 outbreak in what then was Zaire (now the ... death from infection with Ebola virus occurred. This is not a subtle bug that simmers delicately among people, causing nothing more ...

Uganda declared the end of an Ebola virus outbreak Saturday, which has killed at least two people in the east African nation ...

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 ...

Filoviruses are among the globe's most lethal—indeed, so dangerous they can be handled only in high-security laboratories.

Scientists are trying to develop a more practical and affordable treatment for Ebola ... options for people there. Besides that, given the sporadic nature of the virus spread, clinical trials ...

Six of the virus species are known to cause disease in humans -- Zaire, Sudan ... the lives of nearly 2,300 people. DRC has experienced more than a dozen Ebola outbreaks since the 1970s.

Ebola virus ... reported in Zaire, close to the river Ebola. Prasad et al. assess four therapeutics in preventing lethal disease in an established nonhuman primate model of Ebola virus infection.

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 ...