Ebola first emerged in 1976 in outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire) and South Sudan (then Sudan), and tracked to bush-meat. Results from virus sequencing of samples from the ...

The initial symptoms are often followed by vomiting ... Johnson's two-dose Zabdeno -- have been approved for use against the Zaire Ebola strain. DRC health authorities have said vaccines helped ...

The symptoms of Ebola start flu-like but progress to severe ... As of now, there are five known strains of the virus, the most common being the Zaire strain, which has a fatality rate of 80 ...

First identified in 1976 in then-Zaire, the Ebola virus is transmitted to humans by infected animals. Human-to-human transmission occurs through body fluids. Its main symptoms are fever ...