Filoviruses are among the globe's most lethal—indeed, so dangerous they can be handled only in high-security laboratories.

If Ebola virus was in his body ... The creature in which a zoonotic virus exists over the long term, usually without causing symptoms, is known as a reservoir host. Monkeys serve as reservoir ...

This was the first time many had ever heard of the virus, but since it was first identified in 1976, there have actually been more than 20 serious Ebola incidents. Thankfully, none of them had the ...

A new CDC-led study identifies deforestation as a leading indicator of Ebola virus spillover. Using machine learning and two decades of satellite data, researchers found that forest loss and ...

likely from a single zoonotic introduction in a young child in Guéckédou, Guinea. From that first case of Ebola virus disease, the virus has spread to five countries (Guinea, Sierra Leone ...

In 2013, at the beginning of a major Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa ... but a research team led by zoonotic disease researcher Linfa Wang at the Duke-National University of Singapore (NUS) ...

A team of scientists has uncovered the remarkable potential of a human antibody, mAb 3A6, in fighting Ebola virus infections.

SARS, MERS, Zika, and Ebola are all zoonotic diseases — and more new ... is if climate change had an impact on the origin of the virus. Business Insider Today spoke with Inger Andersen, the ...

Predict, an animal virus surveillance program run ... of an effort to search for previously undiscovered zoonotic diseases, which are passed from animals to humans. Viruses such as AIDS, SARS, MERS, ...

A team of biomedical researchers trained a machine learning algorithm to identify more than two dozen viable treatments for diseases caused by zoonotic pathogens that can jump from animal hosts to ...

The on-going Ebola outbreak in the West African countries is so far the worst in the history of the deadly disease. The virus seems to have gripped the world's interest due to its destructive ...