At least one person has died and it is believed at least 10 others are affected by a new outbreak in the northernmost province of the Congo. It has been 3 years since the West African Epidemic peaked. The epidemic killed over 11,000. Read more
Late in 2013, a novel variant of the Ebola virus emerged in Western Africa to start what would become the largest human epidemic on record. In a study published December 9th in Cell Host & Microbe, researchers used genome sequencing to trace the introduction and spread of the virus in Liberia–the second worst-affected country. The … Read more