In a ramshackle village in South Sudan, just a few miles from the Ethiopian border, at least three people were reported to ...

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Sierra Leone has lost a fourth doctor to Ebola after a failed effort to transfer her abroad for medical treatment, a government official said Sunday, a huge setback to the impoverished country that is ...

An Ebola outbreak has been reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). At least a dozen cases of the hemorrhagic fever have been reported in the Bolamba health zone, which is located in ...

Kampala, Uganda — A nurse in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, has died of Ebola, a health official said Thursday, in the first recorded fatality since the last outbreak ended in 2023. Diana Atwine, ...

A new study has shown that people vaccinated against Ebola who still developed the disease had a substantially lower risk of dying than people who were not vaccinated, even if they received the ...

Viruses are masters at invading cells thanks to specialized proteins that coat their surfaces. When scientists design ...

Outbreaks of the deadly Ebola virus flare up in parts of Africa almost every year. The virus kills about half the people it infects. But a new study shows that a vaccine already in use is offering ...

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