Because they rely on hosts for a majority of functions, viruses aren’t considered alive. But entities like ‘Sukunaarchaeum ...

If Ebola is to be controlled, it will be because of old-fashioned public health measures aimed at the prevention of transmission, such as isolating those affected, tracing and following up with the ...

Introduction There has been no systematic comparison of how the policy response to past infectious disease outbreaks and epidemics was funded. This study aims to collate and analyse funding for the ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) Ebola situation report declares (1) the Zaire Ebolavirus (hereafter referred to as EBOV) belonging to the Ebolavirus genera of the Filoviridae family (2) as one of ...

More information: Herpes simplex virus type 1 reshapes host chromatin architecture via transcription machinery hijacking, Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-60534-6 ...

A cure for chronic hepatitis B requires eliminating or permanently silencing covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA). A pivotal target of this approach is the hepatitis B virus (HBV) X protein (HBx), ...

Since 1976 (the year of the first Ebola virus isolation), several Ebola outbreaks and epidemics have taken place in endemic areas. In 2014–2015, an outbreak which began in a remote village in Guinea, ...

Eggers C, Martel L, Dismer A, et al. Implementing a DHIS2 Ebola virus disease module during the 2021 Guinea Ebola outbreak. BMJ Global Health 2022;7:e009240. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2022-00924 This article ...