In the shadows of Python Cave, Uganda, a leopard leaps from a guano mound—formed by bat excrement—and sinks its teeth into a ...

Govt needs to strengthen the health sector to confront the malady …it should also step up effort like it’s already doing in terms of awareness, says Enabulele Nigeria is currently experiencing a Lassa ...

Deadly viruses throughout history From the Ebola to COVID-19, diseases caused by viruses have killed humans throughout history. Viruses are much older than human beings, possibly even older than ...

SCIENTISTS have raised “urgent concerns” over new viruses discovered in bats which have the potential to spill over into ...

Genomic analysis confirmed that the 2015 death of a nine-month-old Guinean infant from Ebola virus was the result of transmission through the breast milk of her asymptomatic mother, according to a ...

Colorized transmission electron microscopic image showing the filamentous and curved morphology of an Ebola virus particle. [CDC/ Frederick A. Murphy] Researchers at the University of Iowa (UI ...

Ebola Virus: Origin, Transmission, ... Among humans, the virus is passed on by contact with the blood, body fluids, secretions or organs of an infected or recently departed person.

Ebola can lurk in fluid-filled cavities in the brain and kill monkeys, ... survivors may continue to be a potential source of future human-to-human transmission," he told The Scientist.

Human-to-human transmission of Ebola virus ... Varkey JB, Shantha JG, Crozier I, et al. Persistence of Ebola virus in ocular fluid during convalescence. N Engl J Med 2015;372:2423-2427.

The researchers note that sexual transmission of the virus may be possible as one survivor of the disease was found to have viral RNA present in semen 168 days after becoming infected.

New transmission model for Ebola predicted Uganda cases. Kansas State University. Journal Scientific Reports DOI 10.1038/s41598-019-52501-1 ...

A new risk assessment model for the transmission of Ebola accurately predicted its spread into the Republic of Uganda, according to the Kansas State University researchers who developed it.