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

A virus that is transmitted from an animal (for example, a rodent or bat) to humans is called a zoonotic virus. Some viruses need an intermediate organism, called a vector, to be transmitted from ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

More than 40 years after it was identified, the Ebola virus continues to defy drugs, treatment plans—and experts’ best efforts to solve its mysteries. Ebola vaccine has to be kept cold.

Uganda declared the end of an Ebola virus outbreak Saturday, which has killed at least two people in the east African nation ...

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, ...

Ebola virus is an infectious agent and one of the viruses that can cause haemorraghic fever, a severe infectious disease characterized by high fever and bleeding, in humans and some monkeys.

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 ...