Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility of a ...

In her new book, A History of the World in Six Plagues, Edna Bonhomme describes a 2014 epidemic that decimated a neighborhood — possibly foreshadowing what's to come ...

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 ...

More than 1,600 people have received Ebola virus vaccinations in Guinea, but more jabs will be needed to contain the disease, WHO said. The team demonstrated that a two-antibody cocktail called ...

The virus seems to have gripped the world's interest due to its destructive potential, claiming nearly 7000 lives in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea -- worst-hit Ebola nations in West Africa.

Lassa fever has similar symptoms to the Ebola virus, causing hemorrhagic ... About 5,000 people die of the virus each year in West Africa among the approximately 100,000 to 300,000 annual cases ...

If Ebola virus was in his body ... with special attention to West Africa. He reached southern Guinea by driving overland from Ivory Coast, where he has worked for 15 years in Taï National ...

New research this month shows that the experimental antiviral obeldesivir prevented up to 100% of deaths in monkeys infected ...

Ebola first emerged in 1976 in outbreaks ... Boende district is definitely not derived from the virus strain currently circulating in west Africa.” These findings are reassuring, as they exclude ...

Scientists suspect the first person infected with Ebola in an outbreak acquired the virus through contact ... The 2014-16 Ebola outbreak in West Africa killed more than 11,000 people, the disease ...