On Oct. 13, 1976, exactly 38 years ago Monday, Frederick A. Murphy, a CDC virologist and expert in photographing viruses peered into a microscope and saw what he describes today as a “dark ...

The Ebola virus, which under a microscope resembles spaghetti, is thought to come from a fruit bat bite. There are five types of the virus, and four of them can make humans severely ill. Ebola virus.

The best way to describe the reaction to an outbreak of Ebola virus was penned by Dr. C.J. Peters in his book, Virus Hunter. Known as “the pucker factor,” it consists of “…an uncomfortable ...

This is different from the flu scares of recent years, because this virus is novel here, and we have no cultural memory of what we are supposed to do, or think, or believe, when Ebola is on the loose.

Americans' introduction to the Ebola virus ... Researchers eventually realized they were dealing with a different strain, one now known as Ebola-Reston. Though its appearance under a microscope ...

The reason is because a substantial proportion of modern microbiology research uses the tools of molecular biology, for which microscopes are not needed. If my microbiology career had required the ...

If you look at Ebola under a microscope, you’ll see a long, ... To see if A82V really makes a difference, they’ll have to test different strains of the actual virus on live monkeys.

The Ebola virus that's causing the devastating outbreak in West Africa didn't even have a name just 38 years ago when it first ... looked under the microscope at blood samples sent from ...

Ebola's arrival in Sierra Leone in May started with a funeral, according to Thursday's findings. A young pregnant woman tested positive for the virus and was treated at Kenema Government Hospital ...

Lawmakers on Tuesday will hold their first hearing on Ebola, as Congress seeks assurances that health officials are doing all they can to stop the deadly outbreak of the disease. The Senate Health ...

The Ebola virus can hide in the brains of monkeys that have recovered after medical treatment without ... When we looked more closely at the tissues of different organs under a microscope, ...