Ebola virus, being highly pathogenic for humans and non-human primates and the subject of former weapons programmes, is now one of the most feared pathogens worldwide. In addition, the lack of pre ...

Ebola virus, one of the deadliest pathogens, has a fatality rate of about 50%, posing a serious threat to global health and safety. To address this challenge, researchers at the University of ...

The most lethal strain, Ebola Zaire, attacks every organ, including the skin, and kills between eight and nine of every ten people it infects. The virus strain, the amount of pathogen that enters ...

Bacterial pathogen families were also assessed for ... “So for example, as we’ve seen in the past, large outbreaks of Ebola virus have had major impacts globally, including socioeconomic ...

The clerk who checked him in quickly deduced that he had arrived 2 days prior from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where an outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) was raging. Confusion ensued.

Ebola and Zika as well as bacterial threats — aims to encourage targeted research into new diagnostic methods, vaccines and treatments that may be needed in a major outbreak. The pathogens were ...

“The data also indicate it’s quite unlikely the virus will mutate and change its way of transmission.” Last August, Pardis Sabeti of Harvard University and the Broad Institute, and her colleagues ...

Like the dengue and Zika viruses, Oropouche virus causes a febrile illness. There are recent indications that infections during pregnancy can cause damage to unborn babies. Researchers have now ...

Public health systems should take the steps outlined by Jay Varma and Neil Vora to limit the potential for spillover and the rapid spread of pathogens. Report by Neil Vora and Jay K. Varma The ...

The patient didn't have Ebola (he had malaria ... the potential for previously unseen host-pathogen dynamics. As I write this, an outbreak of Sudan virus disease has infected a dozen patients ...