Update (June 21): The World Health Organization announced that the Ebola outbreak in Guinea is over as of June 19. Twelve people have died since the disease emerged there in February this year. Viral ...

A new guinea pig model of Ebola viral transmission shows that direct contact with infected animals is not necessary to catch the disease. Kerry served as The Scientist’s news director until 2021.

For more than a decade, I have worked as a physician and public-health expert responding to infectious diseases around the ...

Laura Barrón-López discussed more with Dr. Craig Spencer, who survived Ebola after treating patients in Guinea with Doctors Without Borders in 2014.

This story appears in the July 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. No one foresaw, back in December of 2013, that the little boy who fell ill in a village called Méliandou, in Guinea ...

With a new Ebola outbreak in Guinea declared by health authorities on 14 February, an emergency vaccination program is expected to launch in the country from 22 February.

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In March 2014, the largest Ebola virus disease outbreak in history presented West Africa and the international community with an unprecedented public health crisis. From late 2013 to early 2016, the ...