Last week we learned that two Americans working in Liberia for a medical charity, Samaritan's Purse, were among those who had contracted Ebola. When their symptoms took a turn for the worse, the ...

Ebola survivor Kent Brantly, MD, will donate his blood to help treat Rick Sacra, MD, who is currently suffering from Ebola virus disease, according to a Fox News report. Drs. Brantly and Sacra have ...

For more on the current Ebola outbreak, we turn now to Doctor Thomas Geisbert. He's a virologist with the University of Texas medical branch in Galveston, Texas, and has spent decades studying Ebola ...

A single monoclonal antibody isolated from a human survivor of Ebola virus disease (EVD) completely protected monkeys from lethal infection with the virus, according to research published in today's ...

The combination of two chemotherapy drugs effectively inhibited both dengue and Ebola virus in mice, though the two viruses are distinctly different from one another, according to a new study ...

The deadly Ebola virus is snatching headlines once again as the Democratic Republic of Congo faces its ninth outbreak since its discovery more than four decades ago. Here's what you need to know about ...

Concern over the latest Ebola outbreak continued to mount Monday after Nigeria’s health minister confirmed a second case in a doctor who treated a victim last month in Lagos, one of Africa’s most ...

The Ebola virus devastated west Africa in 2014, claiming over 11,000 lives in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. It was the largest Ebola outbreak since the virus had first been discovered in the ...

The organization has said that the blood of Ebola survivors can be used to treat people still suffering from the disease The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that patients with Ebola can be ...

New research led by scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) reveals the workings of a human antibody called mAb 3A6, which may prove to be an important component for Ebola virus ...

Texas scientists who developed an effective vaccine for the deadly Ebola virus are now reporting promising results with new medication to better treat full-blown cases of the disease. In a laboratory ...

Virologist Thomas Geisbert has spent decades studying Ebola and other hemorrhagic fevers. He speaks to Audie Cornish about the current Ebola... In Treating Ebola, Doctors Have Only Containment, Not ...