Filoviruses are among the globe's most lethal—indeed, so dangerous they can be handled only in high-security laboratories.

A new CDC-led study identifies deforestation as a leading indicator of Ebola virus spillover. Using machine learning and two decades of satellite data, researchers found that forest loss and ...

In 2013, at the beginning of a major Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa ... but a research team led by zoonotic disease researcher Linfa Wang at the Duke-National University of Singapore (NUS) ...

likely from a single zoonotic introduction in a young child in Guéckédou, Guinea. From that first case of Ebola virus disease, the virus has spread to five countries (Guinea, Sierra Leone ...

Some viruses that spill over cause no illness despite infection and do not readily spread between humans, as in the case of simian foamy virus ... 16 West African Ebola epidemic is an example ...

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

A team of biomedical researchers trained a machine learning algorithm to identify more than two dozen viable treatments for diseases caused by zoonotic pathogens that can jump from animal hosts to ...

The on-going Ebola outbreak in the West African countries is so far the worst in the history of the deadly disease. The virus seems to have gripped the world's interest due to its destructive ...