Six species of the virus are known to cause disease in humans -- Zaire, Sudan, Bundibugyo, Reston, Tai Forest and Bombali.

A Ugandan nurse died of 'unexplained bleeding from multiple sources' linked to Ebola , the first recorded death since the ...

Workers at Firestone's rubber farm in Liberia say that extracting natural rubber comes with a high human cost.

The last time Americans faced the possible spread of Ebola to U.S. territory, in 2014, Donald Trump irresponsibly stoked ...

President Obama is sending military personnel and $750 million to Liberia and other Ebola-afflicted countries in West Africa. At this point, such aid might offer the only hope of containing this ...

Ten years ago, I was in the hospital battling Ebola. My fever rarely relented. I felt so weak that getting up was a herculean task, attempted only a few times a day. Having treated patients with ...

Trump is pulling the U.S. back from international organizations. But on health care especially, Americans have a lot to lose ...

These diseases had once been extraordinary rarities. When HIV hit, they were everywhere. I remember how I blew up gloves into balloons to distract the kids, so small and polite, their hair neatly ...

From that first case of Ebola virus disease, the virus has spread to five countries (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria, and Senegal), causing 4293 suspected and confirmed cases and claiming ...

A new generation of Sierra Leoneans is eager to show visitors that the nation's civil war is long gone and reintroduce one of ...

The university named Dr. Kirk Calhoun as the interim president.

The Covid-19 outbreak in 2020 was on a scale not seen since the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 and laid bare our lack of ...