The Bundibugyo virus, a little known type, previously had caused just two small outbreaks. Now it’s at the center of a ...

A member of U-Report Goma conducts Ebola prevention and awareness outreach among traders at the Alanine market in Goma, in ...

Here’s where Ebola is spreading, how it infects humans and what the Bundibugyo type of the virus does to the body.

Ambassador Tibor Nagy looks at the ongoing Ebola Crisis in Africa - specifically Congo - and why he fears efforts to curb the ...

Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen on ...

A remote gold mining town is under siege, as medical workers struggle to beat back a surge of deaths and infections.

Amid a fast-moving Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the scientific community has mobilized with breakneck ...

A couple of weeks ago, I covered the hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship. Three people sadly died, but the outbreak ...

Serum Institute of India is an organisation that goes far and fast. So we are hoping to have clinical grade vaccine doses ...

The rare species of Ebola involved - known as Bundibugyo - kills around a third of those infected and has no proven vaccine ...

Wildlife trafficking is one of the biggest black market trades in the world, and social media is an unsuspecting platform for ...

During the Ebola epidemic of 2014 to 2016, Musu, a resident of Monrovia, Liberia contracted the Ebola virus along with her husband, five sons and daughter. A few weeks later, six members of her family ...