Both weakened vaccines have features of the Mayinga strain of Ebola virus, as do most other candidate Ebola Zaire vaccines currently under evaluation.

Challenge with a lethal dose of the highly pathogenic, wild-type, 1976 Mayinga strain of Ebola Zaire virus resulted in uniform infection in controls, who progressed to a moribund state and death ...

The Makona strain of Ebola virus circulating in West Africa for the past year takes roughly two days longer to cause terminal disease in an animal model compared to the original 1976 Mayinga ...

Four vaccinated macaques have survived an injection of the most virulent strain of the virus -- the 1976 Mayinga strain of Ebola Zaire virus. Their bodies mounted an efficient immune response to ...

As the New York Times reminds us today, the Health Ministry of Zaire named the Ebola virus after the Ebola River back in 1976. That river is a tributary of the Congo River.

The Makona strain of Ebola virus circulating in West Africa for the past year takes roughly two days longer to cause terminal disease in an animal model compared to the original 1976 Mayinga ...

Add to that, Ebola virus doesn’t spread until the victim has symptoms. This makes determining who is infected with Ebola and deciding who to isolate and quarantine much simpler than with Covid-19.

Uganda has confirmed seven cases of Ebola including in a man who died this week, and seven other deaths are being investigated as suspected cases of a strain for which the authorities do not yet ...

The number of confirmed Ebola cases in Uganda has risen to nine, with one confirmed death, the country’s Ministry of Health has said. In a statement late on Monday, the Health Ministry said that ...

Uganda was declared Ebola free on Wednesday after the latest outbreak of the virus claimed almost 60 lives in about five months. "Today we join the Government of Uganda to declare the end of the ...

Ebola virus FLICKR, NIAID The Makona strain of Ebola virus that caused the recent outbreak in West Africa, killing more than 11,000 people and sickening even more, is apparently less virulent than the ...

A handful of ecologists knew for years that West Africa was at risk for an Ebola outbreak. Now they're figuring out where else in the world the virus could be hiding. Many signs point to Asia.