An outbreak of Ebola disease in Uganda is a result of Sudan virus, the World Health Organization has confirmed.. Samples from a patient in the Mubende district of central Uganda tested positive ...

An Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 670 people in Africa is now taking a toll on doctors and health care workers battling the deadly disease, including two Americans. Kent Brantly, 33, an ...

Of all the horrific features of Ebola disease--its deadliness, its virulence--perhaps the scariest is that there’s no cure. This is not the same thing as saying it’s incurable or untreatable.

Among those patients, 2,899 have tested positive for Ebola virus disease, according to the latest data from the technical committee running the Ebola response and reporting directly to the ...

These, and other, pop culture characterization of Ebola-like viruses place the blame for the spread of the disease squarely on the shoulders of globalization and man's careless despoiling of the ...

After Uganda’s outbreak, the CDC urges doctors to be on alert for Ebola—also known as Ebola virus disease (EVD) and Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF)—a rare but deadly virus.

Ebola occurs when someone is infected with orthoebolavirus zairense, which is a virus mainly found in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The ...

The Ugandan Ministry of Health confirmed 142 cases of Ebola disease and 55 deaths. Because of the brevity of this outbreak, it was not possible to evaluate vaccine candidates.

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A 4-year-old child became the second person to die of Ebola in Uganda, the World Health Organization said Saturday, in a setback for health officials who had hoped for a ...

The Ebola virus causes a devastating, often fatal, infectious disease in people. Within the past decade, Ebola has caused two large and difficult to control outbreaks, one of which recently ended ...

An eastern Iowa resident died Monday from a viral disease similar to Ebola that was likely contracted during a recent trip to ...

There's welcome news in the battle against the Ebola virus, an infectious disease that for years had almost no treatments or remedies. Outbreaks of the deadly Ebola virus flare up in parts of ...