The Ebola virus has five species, and each species has caused outbreaks in different regions. Experts were surprised to see that instead of the Taï Forest Ebola virus, which is found near Guinea ...

The most devastating Ebola outbreak in recent history was caused by the Zaire virus and lasted from 2013 to 2016 in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. In that time, more than 28,000 people were ...

Studies are underway in the Tai Forest to search for the reservoir. Shedding some light on the issue are findings from a lab in South Africa where local animals were inoculated with the Ebola virus.

It encodes glycoproteins from Ebola, Sudan and Marburg viruses, as well as the nucleoprotein from the Tai Forest virus. In the study, the two vaccines were administered to 583 people.

Ebola spreads through contact with bodily fluids—such as blood, urine, feces, vomit, breast milk, and saliva—from people who have fallen ill or died from EVD. The virus gets into the body ...

CNN answers your questions about Ebola causes, symptoms, transmission and treatment so you can avoid panic during the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Ebola vaccine rVSV-ZEBOV was approved by the FDA in 2019 but only protects against Zaire ebolavirus, or Ebola virus proper, not any of the other three human-contracted Ebola-causing viruses.

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 ...

Ebola is an often-deadly virus found primarily in Central and West Africa. It was first discovered in 1976 in Sudan and in Congo near the Ebola River, thus the name. There are five strains of the ...

A 3D illustration of the Ebola virus seen in the blood. Rasi Bhadramani via iStock/Getty Images Plus The Wider Picture. Coronavirus has infected more than 196.6 million people since it was first ...