The Ebola virus devastated west Africa in 2014, claiming over 11,000 lives in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. It was the largest Ebola outbreak since the virus had first been discovered in the ...

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 ...