WASHINGTON: US president Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization is threatening ...

Still, only a very small number of cases have ever been detected in the United States. EVD gets its name from the Ebola River in the Congo, where it was first identified in 1976. It was formerly ...

The highly contagious Ebola virus has claimed more than 15,000 lives since it was first identified in central Africa in 1976. More than three-quarters of those deaths occurred during a brutal outbreak ...

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Discovered in 1976, Ebola is rare, deadly and has multiple variations ... Ervebo has been approved for use in the US and European Union. It can be used to protect adults and children against ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health alert about an outbreak in Uganda of deadly Sudan virus disease, a viral hemorrhagic fever that is in the same family as Ebola.

Nine of the 11 patients treated for Ebola virus disease (EVD) in the United States survived ... them don’t always deliver. In December 2021, the WHO established an intergovernmental negotiating ...

CELLOU BINANI / AFP The highly contagious Ebola virus has claimed more than ... vaccines helped slow the spread of the virus during a 2021 outbreak. A study published in The Lancet Infectious ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. People walk outside the Mulago National Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, Thursday, Jan, 30, 2024, where a nurse ...

The Red Cross voiced alarm Tuesday over the risk that fighting in the besieged DR Congo city of Goma could cause samples of Ebola and other pathogens held in a laboratory to escape.