The Ebola virus binded poorly to straw-colored fruit bats' NPC1 receptor. "That really struck me," said Anthony, who helped discover the sixth known ebolavirus strain, Bombali virus.

While the results contain no direct evidence of bats infected with Ebola near Meliandou (the confirmed epicenter of the Ebola outbreak), Leendertz suggested that the toddler could have picked up the ...

If Ebola virus was in his body, where did it come from? Under SuspicionStraw-colored fruit bats swarm in an Ivory Coast village. Fruit bats, some of which have been suspected of carrying Ebola ...

Members of this deadly family emerged through zoonotic transmission, most likely jumping across multiple species ...

The results also suggest how scientists might approach mitigating these risks and minimizing spillover, with broader implications for other pathogens that enter humans from bats, such as Nipah virus, ...

Scientists are fairly sure that bats are the natural ‘reservoir’ for the Ebola virus, although it’s not yet completely certain. But no-one disputes that little Emile was ‘Patient Zero ...

Much research to date has relied on cell lines from humans, rodents or primates, which can't answer why bats tolerate viruses that make other species sick. "We could study a virus like Ebola just ...

“We could study a virus like Ebola just fine in a human cell, and we can watch how it interacts with that immune system,” Letko said, “but that won’t help us identify the reason why bats ...

The Ebola virus outbreak, declared in Uganda on January 30, resulted in a 28.6 percent fatality rate among the reported cases ...