What the famous book taught us about Ebola and Marburg. — -- When Richard Preston's novel "The Hot Zone" was published in 1995, it was, for many, their first introduction to the deadly Ebola ...

Americans' introduction to the Ebola virus came 25 years ago in an office park near Washington Dulles International Airport, a covert crisis that captivated the public only years later when it ...

December 16, 2002. Purdue works to transform Ebola virus from killer to healer. WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – By redesigning the shell of Ebola, Purdue University researchers have transformed the feared ...

Lassa fever has similar symptoms to the Ebola virus, causing hemorrhagic fever. ... Human transmission, Hamer said, “makes it a worry for potential introduction and spread in the United States.

A single introduction of the Ebola virus led to most cases of the deadly disease in Liberia, a new genetic study suggests. Researchers examined 165 Ebola genomes, most collected during the second ...

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.

Ebola is endemic to Congo, and this is its ninth outbreak of Ebola virus disease since the discovery of the virus near the country’s Ebola River. “So they are extensively experienced in how to ...

The deadly Ebola virus normally spreads among animals but occasionally spills over to humans, to dire effect. To understand how such diseases make that jump, scientists must find the animal host.

The Ebola virus disease outbreak now ravaging parts of West Africa is the largest on record. ... likely from a single zoonotic introduction in a young child in Guéckédou, Guinea.

Ebola hemorrhagic fever is considered a classic zoonotic disease with the persistence of the Ebola virus in a reservoir species. Image Credit: Valeniker / Shutterstock.com The exact source of ...

A health care worker wears virus protective gear at an Ebola treatment center in Bikoro, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The country's latest outbreak has spread to a city of more than 1 million ...

Americans' introduction to the Ebola virus came 25 years ago in an office park near Washington Dulles International Airport, a covert crisis that captivated the public only years later when it ...