We found two lists of Ebola outbreaks, and while it's pretty clear that Hebert overshot the number of outbreaks, his general point is accurate.

The Ebola outbreak continues to spread in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the countries hardest hit by the disease. More than 1,000 people have now died from the virus.

The film Outbreak hit theaters just about two months before Newsweek ran its "Killer Virus" cover, and when it comes to scary overseas medical stories, that movie had it all—a virus born in ...

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.

Take Outbreak, the 1995 thriller about the Motaba virus, a hyper-infectious Ebola stand-in. Without revealing too much of the plot, Motaba eventually works its way into the United States, causing ...

A health worker waits to handle a new unconfirmed Ebola patient at a newly built treatment center supported by Doctors Without Borders in Bunia, north of Beni in Congo.

The health ministers of 11 African nations agree to a joint strategy to try to stem Ebola’s deadly advance.

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.

The Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa has hit “unprecedented” proportions, according to relief workers.

The virus described in the film, Motaba, loosely resembles the Ebola virus strains which became popular in the mid-1990s with books like The Hot Zone and Outbreak.

The 2015 documentary 'Outbreak,' which investigated the largest Ebola outbreak in recorded history, is newly available to stream on FRONTLINE's YouTube channel.