The World Health Organization's emergencies director on Friday praised the "fastest roll-out" of an Ebola vaccine trial in ...

A laboratory holding Ebola and other dangerous pathogens in the eastern DR Congo city of Goma—which has been seized by the ...

KAMPALA, Uganda -- A nurse in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, died after testing positive for Ebola, a health official said ...

The highly contagious Ebola virus has claimed more than 15,000 lives since it was first identified in central Africa in 1976.

The biggest filovirus outbreak, caused by Ebola virus, occurred in three West African countries from 2014 to 2016. It killed more than 11,000 people and infected more than 28,000. More recently ...

In a global first, Uganda's Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners today launched a first ever vaccine trial for Ebola from the Sudan species of the virus, and at ...

Uganda announced Thursday that a nurse, 32, had died of Ebola in the capital, Kampala, amid a new outbreak of the deadly virus there — the first in two years. The country has activated emergency ...

The Ugandan Health Ministry has confirmed the death of a nurse following the outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease in the country. The permanent secretary of the ministry, Diana Atwine, made this ...

Scientists don’t know the natural reservoir of Ebola, but they suspect the first person infected in an outbreak acquired the virus through contact with an infected animal or eating its raw meat.