Ebola is a highly transmissible disease but its spread can be prevented through behavioural measures.

Professor Muyembe was called to the village of Yambuku in northern Zaire (now DRC) where a mysterious illness had broken out.

When the virus hunters landed in the remote African village of Yambuku in 1976, the nuns warned them to stay back. The sisters had cordoned off the area where they were caring for people dying ...

Antimalarials, treatments against Ebola, studies of African genomes… These relentless and visionary scientists from Africa succeeded when no one dared to believe.

Ebola has been defeated. Vaccines and medical treatments have brought the deadly and terrifying disease under control, says Jean-Jacques Muyembe, the Congolese professor who first discovered the virus ...

Muyembe first came across the virus in 1976 as a field epidemiologist when he was called to the village of Yambuku in northern DRC, which was then called Zaire.

The virus was named Ebola after a river close to Yambuku. "At the time, I took samples with my bare hands, as blood was flowing", Mr. Muyembe told AFP before the ceremony in his laboratory ...

Ebola has been defeated. Vaccines and medical treatments have brought the deadly and terrifying disease under control, says Jean-Jacques Muyembe, the Congolese professor who first discovered the ...

Muyembe first came across the virus in 1976 as a field epidemiologist when he was called to the village of Yambuku in northern DRC, which was then called Zaire. A mysterious illness had just appeared.

Ebola has been defeated. Vaccines and medical treatments have brought the deadly and terrifying disease under control, says Jean-Jacques Muyembe, the Congolese professor who first discovered the ...