The 1995 film Outbreak did pretty well at the box office, but our fact-check focuses on Hebert’s numbers, not his taste in movies. We emailed him to learn where he got his figures and did not ...

While the virus can kill up to 90 percent of those it infects, the death rate in this outbreak has been about 60 percent. This is not the first time Ebola has been in the headlines.

Red Cross workers in Zaire during a deadly Ebola virus outbreak in 1995. 2. Ebola can be spread through an airplane's ventilation system . Early on in the movie, the virus spreads in a believable ...

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Scientists think about the risk of Ebola in terms of how likely someone will get it and die. That probability of someone in this country dying from Ebola is miniscule. But how the average person ...

The 1995 film Outbreak tells the story of Army scientists dealing with an ebola-like virus that threatens to wreak havoc on the U.S., as government officials decide whether or not to bomb a small ...

This is the opening scene—ground zero—in the 1995 film Outbreak, in which an Ebola-like virus ultimately lands on U.S. soil and becomes an unstoppable killer. In the film, ...

The deadly Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa has hit “unprecedented” proportions, according to relief workers on the ground. “The epidemic is out of control,” Dr. Bart Janssens, director ...

As a major outbreak of deadly Ebola virus spreads through the West African nations of Guinea and Liberia, public health officials are struggling to contain the horror-movie pathogen before it ...

The 1995 movie Outbreak showed an Ebola-like virus spreading through a fictional California town, while the real virus killed off nearly an entire village in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Ebola and Outbreak aside, a virus is still a force unlike any other on the planet. The New Yorker ’s Michael Specter sums this up most efficiently, quipping, “Ebola won’t kill us all, but ...