Mishandling Of Ebola Sample May Have Exposed CDC Technician To Virus : The Two-Way The worker will be monitored for symptoms. Officials are investigating the incident, in which the virus was moved ...

The CDC is very well prepared for Ebola, ... —At a treatment center on October 2, a man pushes a wheelbarrow containing a woman thought to be a victim of the Ebola virus.

Ebola is a virus that causes Ebola virus disease (EVD). The fatal disease most commonly affects humans as well as non-human primates, such as monkeys, gorillas and chimpanzees, the CDC explains.

CDC scientists have created a synthetic version of the Ebola virus, part of an effort to determine whether diagnostic tests and experimental treatments being used in the field are effective.

Ebola was first identified in 1976, and the current outbreak in West Africa is considered the largest and most complex in the history of the virus, with more cases and deaths than every other ...

Public health experts are asking whether the CDC is partly to blame for problems with Ebola in the U.S. Here are 5 things they say the CDC is getting wrong.

TRUE: The CDC patented a strain of Ebola in 2010. FALSE: The CDC created Ebola and obtained a patent for it to restrict or profit from the development of a vaccine. Example: [Collected via email ...

After Uganda’s outbreak, the CDC urges doctors to be on alert for Ebola—also known as Ebola virus disease (EVD) and Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF)—a rare but deadly virus.

CDC officials say it's still possible to avoid this worst-case. ... The Ebola virus has caused more than 20 outbreaks in the past four decades, mostly in remote villages in Central Africa.

After Uganda’s outbreak, the CDC urges doctors to be on alert for Ebola—also known as Ebola virus disease (EVD) and Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF)—a rare but deadly virus.

The CDC is warning American public health officials and clinicians about the rare Ebola-like Marburg virus reported in Tanzania and Equatorial Guinea, though there are no U.S. cases.

The Ebola vaccine rVSV-ZEBOV was approved by the FDA in 2019 but only protects against Zaire ebolavirus, or Ebola virus proper, not any of the other three human-contracted Ebola-causing viruses.