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 ...

Uganda celebrates a major health victory, officially declaring the end of the Ebola Sudan Virus Disease outbreak after 42 ...

If Ebola virus was in his body ... Since a 1976 outbreak in what then was Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) and a simultaneous episode with a closely related virus in what was ...

Ebola virus, being highly pathogenic for humans and ... The first cases of EBOV were reported from Sudan and Zaire in 1976, but the virus has only received real attention from scientists since ...

Ebola, a virus named after a Congolese river, has conjured special respect since its discovery in 1976 in Yambuku, Zaire. As I wrote in my first book, The Coming Plague, the deadly disease was ...

First identified in 1976 in then-Zaire, the Ebola virus is transmitted to humans by infected animals. Human-to-human transmission occurs through body fluids. Its main symptoms are fever ...

Although most Ebola viruses, notably Ebola-Zaire virus, are highly infectious for primates and can cause severe haemorrhagic diseases, Ebola-Reston virus does not cause serious disease in humans.

Ebola first emerged in 1976 in outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire) and South Sudan (then Sudan), and tracked to bush-meat. Results from virus sequencing of samples from the ...