Scientists have found evidence of the deadly Ebola virus in a bat in Liberia, the first time the virus has been found in a bat in West Africa, researchers and officials announced Thursday.

The deadly Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa has hit “unprecedented” proportions, according to relief workers on the ground. “The epidemic is out of control,” Dr. Bart Janssens, director ...

T hough a few cases of Ebola in the U.S. and Europe have sparked panic that the deadly virus is spreading far and wide, a closer look at the outbreak in West Africa tells a slightly different ...

The Ebola virus has been found in a bat in Liberia, the country’s government and scientists with Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health announced this week.

Liberia closed most of its borders on Monday as West African governments struggled to prevent the spread of the extremely deadly Ebola virus, which has infected more than 1,000 people in three ...

The Ebola virus can remain in semen for 9 months, for example, far longer than previously understood, ... WHO says the news that West Africa is Ebola-free is cause to celebrate, ...

The Ebola virus that has killed scores of people in Guinea this year is a new strain - evidence that the disease did not spread there from outbreaks in some other African nations, scientists report.

More than two years after it began, an Ebola outbreak that claimed 11,315 lives — the deadliest in history — appears to be over, the World Health Organization said Thursday. The WHO reported ...

In this photo taken Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014, a health worker wearing protective clothing and equipment, await patients to screen against the deadly Ebola virus at the Kenema Government Hospital ...

Despite lessons from the Ebola and COVID-19 pandemics, Nigeria's readiness for an outbreak of diseases such as Lassa Fever is ...

Rodents in West Africa carry the virus and can transmit it to humans who come in contact with rodents’ urine or feces. Lassa ...