The Ebola epidemic in West Africa has now killed over 1000 people. But is it really the most deadly outbreak in history?

Images courtesy of John Nelson / UXBlog. John Nelson over at UXBlog put together this chart showing how Ebola outbreaks have happened since the first recognized one, almost 30 years ago.

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has claimed the lives of at least 4,033 people so far, including, last week, Thomas Eric Duncan in the United States. The toll is likely greater because many ...

Uganda declared an end to its latest Ebola outbreak, three months after officials confirmed cases of the deadly disease. The health ministry said Uganda had gone more than 40 days without ...

This year's ebola outbreak in Africa is by far the worst the continent has seen since 1976, when the virus was first discovered.

A nurse in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, has died from the ebola virus, marking the first recorded fatality since the last outbreak was contained at the start of 2023, according to health officials.

An Ebola outbreak has been reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Experts share concerns about the highly fatal and contagious hemorrhagic fever.

A nurse in Uganda has died of Ebola in the first recorded fatality since the country’s last outbreak of the disease ended in early 2023, a health official said Thursday.

Uganda discharged on Tuesday the last eight patients who recovered from Ebola, and there were no other positive cases in the outbreak declared last month.

Authorities say there have been no reports of Ebola, requests for Ebola testing or announcement of an Ebola outbreak related to Burning Man.

Ebola has flared up intermittently in Africa for more than 40 years, most notably during an outbreak between 2013 and 2016 that infected 28,000 people and took more than 11,000 lives.