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 ...

Here's some background information about Ebola, a virus with a high fatality rate that was first identified in Africa in 1976. Facts:Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a disease caused by one of five ...

Discovered in 1976, Ebola is rare, deadly and has multiple variations. There is a vaccine for the Zaire type, now trials for another are underway. Ebola damages blood vessels and causes severe, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The minimum incubation period was established as 2 days in 1976 during the first described outbreak of Zaire ...

Researchers from the US National Institutes of Health and Bernard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, Germany, infected three cynomolgus macaques with the 1976 Mayinga strain and another ...

The first human outbreaks occurred in 1976, one in northern Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) in central Africa: and the other, in southern Sudan (now South Sudan). The virus is named after ...