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

At least 15 people from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, including four health care workers, died following a new outbreak of the Ebola virus, the central African nation’s 16th major brush with ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has declared a new Ebola outbreak in Kasai Province. It's caused by the most severe strain: Zaire Ebola virus. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci ...

Johannesburg — The Minister of Health for the Democratic Republic of Congo, Samuel Roger Kamba, confirmed last week an outbreak of the highly infectious Zaire strain of Ebola virus disease in the ...

"Having to deal with Lassa, and watch their colleagues die from it, health workers followed infection control measures - scared, upset and determined to avoid more deaths," he said. Ebola victims in ...

The World Health Organization's regional director for Africa said the ebola outbreak challenged Uganda's health workers in new ways. Uganda has announced the official end to an Ebola outbreak that ...

GENEVA/LAGOS, Aug 28 (Reuters) - The Ebola epidemic in West Africa could infect over 20,000 people and spread to more countries, the U.N. health agency said on Thursday, warning that an international ...

Aug 1 (Reuters) - Shares of Canada's Tekmira Pharmaceutical Corp , which has ambitions of producing the first treatment for the deadly Ebola virus, have skyrocketed as the worst-ever outbreak of the ...

The number of suspected Ebola cases in Congo's southern Kasai province have more than doubled in a week since a new outbreak was confirmed there, Africa's top public health agency said Thursday. The ...