Ebola outbreak is now third largest in history. Here’s what to know.

Ebola case counts are quickly climbing as a rare strain hits a high-trafficked part of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

I’m an Ebola expert – what we are seeing could be unprecedented

I am a world expert in Ebola – a nightmare scenario is increasingly within the realms of possibility - INSIDE STORY: Dr Simon ...

Ex-CDC director warns Ebola outbreak could rank second largest in history

(The Hill) – Robert Redfield, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). warned Friday that ...
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Fact Check: Virus Outbreaks Do Not Occur Every 6 Years

Tempo interviewed epidemiologists and reviewed credible media reports. The results showed no scientific pattern that ...

What the (rather brief) history of hantavirus reveals about its spread

Scientists think the hantavirus, the deadly pathogen that has infected 11 passengers on a Dutch cruise ship, could be as old as humans.
The Hour

Genome sequencing is rewriting the history of disease outbreaks – but without social context, it can tell only part of the story

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) One way to think about sequencing is to imagine a virus or bacteria’s genome as a ...

WHO Chief Visits Epicenter Of Ebola Outbreak As Virus Spreads Faster Than The Response

BUNIA, Congo (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization on Saturday visited eastern Congo’s Bunia, a city at the heart ...

Visualizing the Ebola outbreak in maps and charts

The World Health Organization has declared that an outbreak of Ebola in Central Africa is a public health emergency. Health ...

What’s wrong with how US and Uganda plan to stop Ebola spreading

As public health workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo work to rein in a growing outbreak of a rare Ebola virus, other ...
Opinion

The Ebola and hantavirus outbreaks warn us we must be better prepared if we are to prevent the next pandemic

Surveillance that misses a haemorrhagic fever or fails to consider endemic risks at a departure port will be blind to something far more dangerous ...