On Dec. 26, 2013, a 2-year-old boy in the remote Guinean village of Meliandou fell ill with a…
On Mar. 7, 2005, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) commissioned the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit (NBU) at…
On Dec. 12, 2001, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed an outbreak of Ebola in Gabon. The WHO…
On May 6, 1995, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigated an deadly outbreak of…
In 1978, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) completed construction of a new hot lab…
On Oct. 13, 1976, the Ebola virus was first identified in Sudan and Zaire (now Democratic Republic of…
In 1976, patients began presenting at a rural hospital in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo (then referred to…
On Apr. 7, 1948, the World Health Organization (WHO) was founded and is today the United Nations agency…