The small clinical trial is using healthy human volunteers in the U.S. The Ebola vaccine is the subject of a study published Sunday in the journal Nature Medicine. Researchers say the vaccine ...

In a grim assessment of the Ebola epidemic, researchers say the deadly virus threatens to become endemic to West Africa instead of eventually disappearing from humans. “The current epidemiologic ...

The other is in the N’Zerekore region of Guinea. This causes me to wonder if Ebola has effectively become endemic in humans as there are now close to twenty thousand living survivors of Ebola ...

That outbreak led to 28,000 human infections. “There was this belief that Ebola virus essentially never changes,” Kristian G. Andersen, The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) infectious disease ...

151; -- U.S. scientists will begin testing an Ebola vaccine in humans next week, health officials announced today. But it could take 11 months to learn whether the vaccine is safe as the virus ...

But the animals that need to be much more front and center as we think about Ebola are not domestic dogs, but wildlife. As the human toll and financial costs continue to mount, it is worth taking ...

Monkeys infected with the deadly Ebola virus have been treated successfully, possibly bringing humans a step closer to a cure. According to a new study, a team of scientists used special gene ...

Typically, Ebola outbreaks start with zoonotic transmission ... Scientists soon suspected the virus had somehow reemerged from a human host years later and was killing again.

The pig eats the fruit, the humans eat the pig, and the next thing you know, the contagion is spreading. These, and other, pop culture characterization of Ebola-like viruses place the blame for ...

Monkeys infected with Ebola can be cured with a pill, according to a new study out Friday that could pave the way for more practical, affordable treatments in humans.

Scientists have found a surprising link between deadly Ebola virus and a disease that's been killing boa constrictors in zoos and aquariums. The discovery should make it possible to contain ...