2nd deadliest Ebola outbreak in history spreads to major city, raising new challenges for containment Ebola cases are popping up in Butembo, home to over 1 million residents.

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — The dreaded Ebola virus came to the children's hospital in the form of a 4-year-old boy. His diagnosis became clear three days after he was admitted. The Ola During ...

The worst Ebola outbreak in history has put a number of countries in West Africa in lockdown, led to the deaths of nearly 700 people since February and brought new reports of doctors, including ...

The second largest Ebola outbreak in history may finally be over For almost two years, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been struggling to suppress the deadly virus. Now, this outbreak appears ...

Peter Piot was credited with having discovered Ebola. But Piot did not discover Ebola on his own — and may not be able to actually make the claim at all.

Just as Congo was about to celebrate the eradication of Ebola in one of the biggest ever outbreaks, the virus has cropped up elsewhere in the country.

According to an update this week from the World Health Organization, there have been 13,042 Ebola cases and 4,818 deaths since the first child died of the virus in December — but those figures ...

The current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's volatile east is now the second largest ever.

The worst Ebola outbreak in history was in West Africa from 2014 to 2016, and infected almost 30,000 people, killing more than 11,000.

What don’t we know about Ebola**?** In some ways, we’re only aware of how much we don’t understand because of the little that we do. No one has identified Ebola’s “natural reservoir ...

More than 6,000 people have died as the virus spread from Guinea to other countries in West Africa.

More than 6,000 people have died as the virus spread from Guinea to other countries in West Africa.