The Integrated Research Facility is one of the few labs in North America where scientists can safely study BSL-4 pathogens ...

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 ...

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.

“The data also indicate it’s quite unlikely the virus will mutate and change its way of transmission.” Last August, Pardis Sabeti of Harvard University and the Broad Institute, and her colleagues ...

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Uganda declared the end of an Ebola virus outbreak Saturday, which has killed at least two people in the east African nation ...

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.

Public health systems should take the steps outlined by Jay Varma and Neil Vora to limit the potential for spillover and the rapid spread of pathogens. Report by Neil Vora and Jay K. Varma The ...

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 ...