Researchers have made progress toward a vaccine against the deadly Ebola virus. They have demonstrated that a plant-derived vaccine for Ebola provided strong immunological protection in a mouse model.

The covers of two nonfiction books by US author Richard Preston, Crisis in the Red Zone (left) and The Hot Zone. [Photo provided to China Daily] American author Richard Preston's latest best-seller is ...

KINSHASA -- The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Thursday declared a new outbreak of Ebola in the central province of Kasai, the country's 16th since 1976. Health Minister ...

KINSHASA, 11 September 2007 (IRIN) - Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have identified a fever outbreak that has claimed at least 167 lives in the southern province of Kasai ...

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Health Security, Center for Outbreak Response Innovation, Baltimore, MD 21202, USA 50 years ago during a US election year marked by ...