CNN — (CNN) — Here’s a look at Ebola, a virus with a high fatality rate that was first identified in Africa in 1976. Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a disease caused by one of five different Ebola viruses.

Barring new cases, the patient’s recovery kicks off a 42-day countdown to declaring the country’s 16th outbreak over.

The deadly human ebola virus has been found in three of seven dead laboratory monkeys checked so far out of a larger shipment ...

Ebola damages blood vessels and causes severe, internal bleeding It spreads from animals to humans, and among humans, through close contact with blood, organs, secretions and other bodily fluids from ...