Last year the Gorilla Doctors took on an additional role: first responders. In the supply room of their lab in Goma, Kambale opens a box of crinkly hazmat suits. The first cases of Ebola appeared ...

Ebola hemorrhagic disease epidemics have brought about large-scale ape deaths since the early 1990s. More than 90 percent of ...

iReport.com: Share photos and video of gorillas in zoos or the wild "We know very little about Ebola and how it spreads," he said. "We don't even know the animal that spreads it around." ...

Nyati, a western lowland gorilla born in the Como Park Zoo, has died following years of battling brain lesions.

In the Congo basin, wildlife experts estimate that more than 5,000 lowland gorillas have died of Ebola over the last decade. “In Congo-Brazzaville, they’ve had people dying of Ebola who ate ...