Nearly 40 years ago, a young Belgian scientist travelled to a remote part of the Congolese rainforest - his task was to help find out why so many people were dying from an unknown and terrifying ...

The Ebola virus that's causing the devastating outbreak in West Africa didn't even have a name just 38 years ago when it first surfaced and caused a mysterious illness among villagers in Zaire, now ...

Liberia is nearing a milestone. On May 9, its Ebola outbreak will be officially declared over, assuming no new cases between now and then. Old syringes are filled with oil to grease squeaky locks and ...

The first known Ebola outbreak devastated a small village called Yambuku and the surrounding area in the north of the Congo in 1976. When it started to kill patients in a missionary hospital, a ...

In August 1976, a 44-year-old headmaster named Mabalo Lokela arrived back in the town of Yambuku in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, after two weeks spent touring with a local mission. A few days ...

Survivors of the world’s first known Ebola outbreak have immunity to the virus 40 years after they were infected, scientists have found. “It’s interesting to see that after such a long time, people ...

If you ask Google who discovered Ebola, you will immediately be presented with a picture of Dr. Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. You will also find links to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “Get on that plane now! You know, they are crazy here!” shouts the manager of Kin Avia, a rare charter airline ...

Dr. Peter Piot (right) meets with Sukato Mandzomba, a nurse who contracted Ebola during the 1976 outbreak. Mandzomba now runs a makeshift hospital lab in Yambuku. Women wait in a maternal ward in ...

This summer, a small Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was quickly and effectively contained — clear proof of how much scientists have learned about the deadly virus since it ...

Liberia is nearing a milestone. On May 9, its Ebola outbreak will be officially declared over, assuming no new cases between now and then. Dr. Peter Piot, the director of the London School of Hygiene ...