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.

Among those cases, 1,977 have tested positive for Ebola virus disease, which causes an often-fatal type of hemorrhagic fever, according to Tuesday night's bulletin from the country's health ministry.

Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a disease caused by one of five different Ebola viruses. Four of the strains can cause severe illness in humans and animals. The fifth, Reston virus, has caused illness ...

That's because the Ebola virus does not spread through the air, like the flu or a cold virus, according to the CDC. "If you sit next to someone on the bus, you're not exposed," Frieden said last week.

The Ebola virus is described as a group of viruses that cause a deadly kind of hemorrhagic fever. The term "hemorrhagic fever" means it causes bleeding inside and outside the body.

The Ebola virus, once considered incurable, has plagued Africa for more than 40 years. Since 1976, nearly 30,000 people have caught Ebola, and more than 11,000 have died.

The virus is named after the Ebola River, in northern DRC, where it was first identified. Home to nine outbreaks since the disease’s discovery, ...

The Ebola virus infecting and killing people in West Africa is the worst recorded outbreak, according to the World Health Organization. The first case of Ebola in a patient diagnosed in a U.S ...

The Ebola outbreak has been centered in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, where authorities have been working to contain the virus. An Ebola survivors participates in a study launched in Monrovia ...

The Ebola virus, which has killed more than 2,400 people during the ongoing epidemic in West Africa, spreads through contact with bodily fluids.That means you can catch it from infected blood, for ...

Ebola first appeared more than three decades ago, but there is still no cure or specific treatment for the disease, in part because the dangerous nature of the virus makes it difficult to study ...

Ebola virus particles are long and skinny, and look like lethal microscopic noodles. When they get inside a person, the particles attack the immune system, liver, kidneys, ...