Ebola virus is an infectious agent and one of the ... The first infections with this viral genus were reported in Zaire, close to the river Ebola. The Ebola and Marburg viruses use polymerase ...

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 ...

Since a 1976 outbreak in what then was Zaire (now the ... death from infection with Ebola virus occurred. This is not a subtle bug that simmers delicately among people, causing nothing more ...

Six of the virus species are known to cause disease in humans -- Zaire, Sudan ... the lives of nearly 2,300 people. DRC has experienced more than a dozen Ebola outbreaks since the 1970s.

Scientists are trying to develop a more practical and affordable treatment for Ebola ... options for people there. Besides that, given the sporadic nature of the virus spread, clinical trials ...

The Ebola Virus ... torment people amid a lack of or inconclusive reports on the exact source of the outbreaks, hampering the prevention of future outbreaks. “For Ebola Sudan, Ebola Zaire ...

Ebola virus, being highly pathogenic for ... The first cases of EBOV were reported from Sudan and Zaire in 1976, but the virus has only received real attention from scientists since 1995.

First identified in 1976 in then-Zaire, the Ebola virus is transmitted to humans by infected animals. Human-to-human transmission occurs through body fluids. Its main symptoms are fever ...

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 ...

She was awarded a 3-year NIH grant to conduct research at Carnegie Mellon University. Next, she dedicated 9 years studying the biology of Zaire Ebola virus infection. From 1999 to 2003, she worked at ...

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 virus, but since it was first identified in 1976 ...