Control measures including lockdowns have halted the spread of the virus after less than four months

"For 40 years I have been a witness and a player in the fight against this terrifying and deadly disease and I can say today: it is defeated, it is preventable and curable."

For concerned civilians and journalists covering the coronavirus, the figures and projections can be overwhelming, frightening or confusing. Here’s what reporter Caroline Chen is focusing on to keep things as accurate and clear as possible.

For years, scientists poured their hearts into work to develop vaccines. And, for years, they saw promising work smash up against unscalable walls.

The WHO wasted no time to "prequalifying" the newly approved vaccine.

Congo results show good survival rates for patients treated quickly with antibodies

The head of a major medical charity says the spread of Ebola in DR Congo shows no signs of stopping.

A five-year-old boy and his grandmother have died after three cases of Ebola were confirmed in Uganda in a "truly frightening" phase of the spread of the virus.

Response activities have been curbed owing to violence for 4 straight days, as deaths hit 1,069.

There’s some good news related to an Ebola crisis that has offered very little up until now. The World Health Organization now predicts there are adequate supplies of an experimental Ebola vaccine to control the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. “I believe we will have enough vaccine to stop this outbreak unless something very dramatic changes,” Dr. Peter Salama, WHO’s deputy director-general of emergency preparedness and response, told STAT.

With at least 680 cases, it’s already the second-largest Ebola outbreak in history.

AID agencies say the Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo could be tipping into a wider crisis as the number of new cases spiked and violence grounded health workers for a second time.

Leoni Kahumbu remembers the night her 15-year-old daughter, Pascaline, first showed signs of Ebola. She found her fainted on the bathroom floor, blood everywhere. "She did not even have the strength to get up.… I called an ambulance," Kahumbu said. Experts came to their home the next day to disinfect the house. The 48-year-old and her three other children were isolated but have not come down with the often deadly virus.

The family of Ebola viruses has just gotten a bit bigger. The government of Sierra Leone has announced that a new species of Ebola, the sixth, has been discovered there in bats. It has been called, provisionally, the Bombali virus, after a district in the north of the country where it was found. There’s no evidence the new virus has infected people, although EcoHealth Alliance, an environmental nonprofit group involved in the discovery, said on Twitter that it has the potential to infect human cells.

Two of the three patients who were taken from the treatment centre for prayers have died.

Scientists have known about Ebola since 1976, and the Democratic Republic of Congo has had nine outbreaks since then. But now one shot might beat it.

The arrival of the disease in Mbandaka, a bustling port city, is “a game changer,” a World Health Organization official said.

These Ebola-neutralizing antibodies can hopefully be used to treat humans in the near future.

An Ebola outbreak has been declared in the northeast region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The World Health Organisation says three deaths are being linked to the virus, and it is taking the situation "very seriously". One of those killed had tested positive for Ebola after coming down with a haemorrhagic fever last month in Bas-Uele, a province which borders the Central African Republic. WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier has told Sky News that work is under way to find people who may have been in contact with the Ebola sufferer.

A mutated version of the virus was more effective at entering human cells, scientists report. The finding may help explain the vast scope of the last outbreak. By Carl Zimmer.