(CNN) — Here’s a look at Ebola, a virus with a high fatality rate that was first identified in Africa in 1976. Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a disease caused by one of five different Ebola viruses. Four ...

Kyoto, Japan -- Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility of a global outbreak. This was the first time many had ever ...

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 ...

At the end of last year, an Ebola disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Kasai province was officially ...

The first human outbreaks occurred in 1976, one in northern Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) in central Africa: and the other, in southern Sudan (now South Sudan). The virus is named after ...