The virus is not airborne, which means a person cannot get the disease simply by breathing the same air as an infected patient. (MORE: Ebola-stricken boy who became 1st cross-border case in ...

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 ...

As the lethal Ebola virus moves with unprecedented speed through West Africa, it remains a disease without a drug. No cure or vaccine exists for Ebola, which has claimed at least 887 lives in the ...

Ebola is a serious and deadly virus transmitted by animals and humans. It was initially detected in 1976 in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Researchers named the disease after the ...

As many as 25% of those infected with the Ebola virus during the recent four-year outbreak in West Africa may have experienced few if any symptoms and lived on without ill effects, new research ...

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.

Marburg is from the same virus family responsible for the deadly Ebola disease, and it's described as having symptoms broadly similar to those of Ebola, explains the WHO. There are no vaccines or ...

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 ...

Public health officials across the world are monitoring the spread of a deadly virus ominously known as "bleeding eye disease". But what exactly is it? At least 66 people have been infected and 15 ...

Frieden, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), knew it was no simple matter to properly carry away a body loaded with Ebola virus.

About 5,000 people die of the virus each year in West Africa among the approximately 100,000 to 300,000 annual cases, the African Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said.

Marburg virus disease causes people to quickly develop severe illness and fever, which could lead to shock or death. Learn more about the causes, symptoms, and treatment of this illness.