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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

As we look at what this virus has done to affected parts of West Africa, every country in the world wants to keep the Ebola virus out of its borders. The whole world is watching what happens.

“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.

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 ...

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 ...

The news follows the confirmation of another successful Ebola recovery in Europe. A doctor working with the World Health Organization was released Friday from the University Medical Center Hamburg ...

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 ...