Over the past decade, numerous infectious diseases have shown up in the United States including SARS in 2003, H1N1 or ‘swine flu’ in 2009, MERS and enterovirus D68, and now, the Ebola virus.

With Ebola, we humans are the invaders. The sense of being an alien in the world of this virus is jarring. Outside the tent, the air is sticky and has a distinctive smell of bleach. The bleach is ...

Volunteers come from all walks of life, from teaching to engineering One year ago the World Health Organization officially declared there was an outbreak of Ebola across Guinea. The disease had ...

On average, about half of all Ebola patients succumb to the deadly virus, though case fatality rates have varied from 25 to 90 percent in past outbreaks, according to the World Health Organization ...

A clear message from today’s panel is that Ebola will continue to be a going concern in Africa and around the world. In order to combat that, the international community will have to work ...

investigators named the virus after the Ebola River, which was 40 miles away. Donald G. McNeil Jr. is a science reporter covering epidemics and diseases of the world’s poor. He joined The Times ...

“Ending this Ebola outbreak is a sign of hope for the region and the world that with solidarity and science and courage and commitment, even the most challenging epidemics can be controlled.

The World Health Organization says its scientists ... In 2012, Canadian researchers found that Ebola Zaire, which is involved in the current outbreak, was passed from pigs to monkeys in the ...

had been just days away from being declared over when new cases were found. The same region is also home to the world’s largest ongoing measles outbreak. The worst outbreak of Ebola took place ...

As the world is now painfully ... Texan scientists have found another example in domestic Philippine pigs, and its one that’s simultaneously more and less worrying – ebola.

Although Syria and Iraq get most of the international headlines, the Ebola outbreak in west Africa is a biological crisis of historic proportions: Three states are at risk of collapse and tens of ...