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 ...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) two cases of ebola fever have been confirmed in Liberia, which means that the highly contagious virus has started to spread from Guinea across West ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first vaccine for the prevention of Ebola caused by the deadly Zaire strain of the virus, which killed more than 11,000 people during the ...

What you need to know: Ebola damages blood vessels and causes severe, internal bleeding It spreads from animals to humans, ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has declared a new Ebola outbreak in Kasai Province. It's caused by the most severe strain: Zaire Ebola virus. This outbreak began with a 34-year-old ...

DAKAR, March 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Scientists tackling an outbreak of Ebola in Guinea believe they have identified the virus as the Zaire strain, the most lethal of all that "raises the ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has declared a new Ebola outbreak in Kasai Province. It’s caused by the most severe strain: the Zaire Ebola virus. This outbreak began with a 34-year-old ...