Although outbreaks of Ebola virus are rare, the disease is severe and often fatal, with few treatment options. Rather than ...

Marburg virus causes severe viral hemorrhagic fever and 24% to 88% of people who contracted the disease in different outbreaks died. ... which is in the same family as the virus that causes Ebola.

As the Ebola outbreak escalated in October and November, the WHO worked with global health experts to evaluate and prioritize candidate vaccines targeting the virus circulating in Uganda. These ...

Ebola spreads through contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person and has a fatality rate of about 50%. More than 11,300 people died during the 2013-2016 outbreak in West Africa. 5 ...

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.

A boy gets vaccinated for Ebola virus in the village of Mangina in North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on Aug. 18, 2018.

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The 2015 documentary 'Outbreak,' which investigated the largest Ebola outbreak in recorded history, is newly available to stream on FRONTLINE's YouTube channel. And why it wasn't stopped sooner.

No new Ebola infections have been detected in Uganda for 42 days, and so on Wednesday, the World Health Organization and the Ugandan Ministry of Health officially declared that the country’s ...

The WHO has confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Marburg Virus Disease in Ghana. Here's what to know about the Ebola relative from symptoms to spread.

Uganda has had multiple Ebola outbreaks, including one in 2000 that killed hundreds. A 2014-16 Ebola outbreak in West Africa killed more than 11,000 people , the disease's largest death toll.