The Ebola death toll in West Africa reached 1,145 Friday, and fears that the disease may reach the western world are getting harder to ignore. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention even ...
The latter occurred in a village near the Ebola River, from which the disease takes its name. Ebola is a severe, often fatal illness with an average death rate of 50%. It spreads between humans ...
The team performed additional tests using purified human keratinocytes and fibroblasts to see which intracellular mechanisms supported Ebola infiltration. They found that the endosomal protein ...
This work can guide future surveillance efforts to identify the host reservoir of Ebola virus and other related viruses. As new ebolaviruses and variants are discovered, scientists can also use this ...
To improve pandemic preparedness, researchers at the University of Minnesota and the Midwest Antiviral Drug Discovery (AViDD) Center studied how the virus attaches to human cells. Like Ebola ...
Ebola virus, being highly pathogenic for humans and non-human primates and the subject of former weapons programmes, is now one of the most feared pathogens worldwide. In addition, the lack of pre ...
To address this critical gap in pandemic preparedness, researchers at the University of Minnesota and the Midwest Antiviral Drug Discovery (AViDD) Center investigated how this deadly virus attaches to ...
The latter occurred in a village near the Ebola River, from which the disease takes its name. Ebola is a severe, often fatal illness with an average death rate of 50%. It spreads between humans ...