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While experimental Ebola vaccines have been available for years, it took the West African outbreak to interest pharmaceutical companies in developing them.
The latest Ebola outbreak has reached a crisis point in West Africa. Here are some important things you need to know to understand it.
Ebola, a hemorrhagic fever that can cause its victims to bleed from the ears and nose, had never before been seen in this part of West Africa where medical clinics are few and far between.
The Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa has hit “unprecedented” proportions, according to relief workers.
The deadly ebola virus is ravaging West Africa with an outbreak that’s spanned multiple countries in the region, and caused the highest death toll yet.
The World Health Organization announced Thursday that the Ebola epidemic in West Africa is over — for now. For the first time since the outbreak began in December 2013, all three of the hardest ...
The collapse of health systems in Ebola-ravaged countries in West Africa could lead to large outbreaks of measles and other preventable infectious diseases, according to a report published today ...
The recent outbreak of Ebola virus devastated parts of West Africa, infecting more than 28,000 people and causing more than 11,000 deaths. In this report, public health authorities discuss many of ...
Press Release - Researchers at Burnet Institute, in collaboration with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, have provided the world's first ever look at the historical impact of emergency vaccination efforts ...
An independent investigator is being sanctioned by the United States over her work scrutinizing human rights abuses in the ...
Despite lessons from the Ebola and COVID-19 pandemics, Nigeria's readiness for an outbreak of diseases such as Lassa Fever is ...
The US Department of Health and Human Services is weighing whether to fund new Marburg and Sudan Ebola virus vaccines even as Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. overhauls the US immunization landscape, ...