Ebola outbreak spreads, claiming first victims in a new region Government in Congo's previously unaffected South Kivu province says 1 person there has died and their child is being treated Aug 16 ...

This is the 10th outbreak the country has seen since 1976, the year that scientists first identified the deadly virus in the small northern village Yambuku near the eponymous Ebola River. This ...

Leaders of Ebola-hit countries in west Africa will attend an international conference in Brussels Tuesday to mobilise a final push to end the outbreak and ensure the delivery of nearly $5 billion ...

The current outbreak has a case fatality rate of about 67%. There have been 1,676 deaths so far, including 1,582 from confirmed cases of Ebola and the rest from probable cases, according to the ...

The Ebola virus outbreak and its scary ramifications will be a big topic on Sunday news shows as Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden appears on three different programs ...

Ebola Virus Outbreak Four health workers are among the 30 people who have died. Doctors walk inside the Ebola isolation section of Mubende Regional Referral Hospital in Mubende, Uganda on Sept. 29.

Since the Ebola virus was first identified almost 40 years ago, the World Health Organization reports 24 previous outbreaks of Ebola and its subtypes. The first reported outbreaks occurred in 1976.

The Ebola virus spreading through West Africa could infect more than 20,000 people before the outbreak is brought under control, the World Health Organization says in a report out Thursday.

The World Health Organization urged nations worldwide to donate money and resources to stop the spread of Ebola as it declared the outbreak in West Africa to be an international public health emerg ...

Ebola Outbreak: Why It's So Important to Find Patient Zero: The current Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa has killed more than 4,000 people, but it started with one person: a 2-year-old child ...

Tanzania’s president has confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus disease (MVD), a highly infectious virus like Ebola that can be fatal in up to 88 per cent of cases without treatment ...

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.