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 ...

The Marburg virus is a highly virulent pathogen that causes hemorrhagic fever in humans. It belongs to the same family as Ebola. Its high mortality rate has caused concern among health experts.

The most lethal strain, Ebola Zaire, attacks every organ, including the skin, and kills between eight and nine of every ten people it infects. The virus strain, the amount of pathogen that enters ...

Bacterial pathogen families were also assessed for ... “So for example, as we’ve seen in the past, large outbreaks of Ebola virus have had major impacts globally, including socioeconomic ...

The clerk who checked him in quickly deduced that he had arrived 2 days prior from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where an outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) was raging. Confusion ensued.

This epidemic was caused by Marburg virus, which together with ... Since there are at last three different Ebola subtypes that are known to be human pathogens, a multivalent vaccine is needed.

More than 40 years after it was identified, the Ebola virus continues to defy drugs, treatment plans—and experts’ best efforts to solve its mysteries. Ebola vaccine has to be kept cold.

Ebola and Zika as well as bacterial threats — aims to encourage targeted research into new diagnostic methods, vaccines and treatments that may be needed in a major outbreak. The pathogens were ...

Jan Felix Drexler, head of the Virus Epidemiology laboratory at the Institute of Virology at Charité, has now undertaken an extensive study to examine the pathogen's actual prevalence.

The patient didn't have Ebola (he had malaria ... the potential for previously unseen host-pathogen dynamics. As I write this, an outbreak of Sudan virus disease has infected a dozen patients ...