Filoviruses are among the globe's most lethal—indeed, so dangerous they can be handled only in high-security laboratories.

If Ebola virus was in his body ... The creature in which a zoonotic virus exists over the long term, usually without causing symptoms, is known as a reservoir host. Monkeys serve as reservoir ...

In 2013, at the beginning of a major Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa ... but a research team led by zoonotic disease researcher Linfa Wang at the Duke-National University of Singapore (NUS) ...

likely from a single zoonotic introduction in a young child in Guéckédou, Guinea. From that first case of Ebola virus disease, the virus has spread to five countries (Guinea, Sierra Leone ...

A virus that is transmitted from an animal (for example, a rodent or bat) to humans is called a zoonotic virus. Some viruses need an intermediate organism, called a vector, to be transmitted from ...

SARS, MERS, Zika, and Ebola are all zoonotic diseases — and more new ... is if climate change had an impact on the origin of the virus. Business Insider Today spoke with Inger Andersen, the ...

A team of scientists has uncovered the remarkable potential of a human antibody, mAb 3A6, in fighting Ebola virus infections.

A team of biomedical researchers trained a machine learning algorithm to identify more than two dozen viable treatments for diseases caused by zoonotic pathogens that can jump from animal hosts to ...

Some viruses that spill over cause no illness despite infection and do not readily spread between humans, as in the case of simian foamy virus ... 16 West African Ebola epidemic is an example ...

Predict, an animal virus surveillance program run ... of an effort to search for previously undiscovered zoonotic diseases, which are passed from animals to humans. Viruses such as AIDS, SARS, MERS, ...