The Ebola virus disease outbreak now ravaging parts of West Africa is the largest on record. In fact, West Africa has seen more cases of the disease in 2014 than have been seen in all other ...

A trial vaccine known as rVSV-ZEBOV, used to vaccinate 3,000 people at risk of infection during an outbreak of the Zaire ...

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

Ebola first emerged in 1976 in outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire) and South Sudan (then Sudan), and tracked to bush-meat. Results from virus sequencing of samples from the ...

A trial vaccine known as rVSV-ZEBOV, used to vaccinate 3,000 people at risk of infection during an outbreak of the Zaire ...

hampering the prevention of future outbreaks. “For Ebola Sudan, Ebola Zaire, Ebola Bundibugyo (species/types of ebolaviruses), nobody has ever really said, ‘This is where it has come from ...

If Ebola virus was in his body ... He led the international response team against that initial 1976 outbreak in Zaire, a harrowing venture into the unknown. He also led a team that isolated ...

In the meantime, pre-licensure, investigational doses of V920 are available to support response to Ebola Zaire outbreaks on an emergency basis in coordination with global public health authorities.” ...

for the Zaire strain. There are currently no approved treatments or vaccines for the Sudan strain. However, after a Sudan Ebola virus outbreak emerged in Uganda in 2022, three vaccine candidates ...

Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility of a global outbreak. This was the first time many had ever heard of the ...