The virus spreads through direct person-to-person contact and can remain highly infectious in corpses, making funeral practices especially dangerous.

900 suspected cases and 223 deaths have been linked to an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo

The virus spreads from direct person-to-person contact. But here's what makes it especially lethal: it persists in corpses, and funeral practices often take place precisely when…

The virus spreads through direct person-to-person contact and can remain highly infectious in corpses, making funeral practices especially dangerous.

The virus causing an outbreak in Congo suspected of killing more than 200 people is less common than others that cause Ebola disease, which is complicating the response because…

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