Filoviruses—such as Ebola and Marburg viruses—can cause hemorrhagic fevers with up to 90% lethality. Not only that, but there are very few tools (vaccines or drugs) to combat them. Now, scientists at ...

The human genome contains fragments of viruses that our species tangled with in our distant evolutionary past. Now new scientific research has isolated some of the viruses that still haunt our genomes ...

Responders are still investigating the source of the outbreak, along with the index patient's symptom onset and health visit history.

New research in the journal Nature Communications gives scientists an important window into how Ebola virus replicates inside host cells. The study, led by scientists at La Jolla Institute for ...

NEW YORK -- Here are seven facts from the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control about Ebola and how it is spread. 1. EBOLA VIRUS HAS BEEN CONTRACTED INSIDE THE UNITED STATES.

An Ebola doctor-turned-patient had virus in his eyeball months after recovery. — -- For one Ebola doctor-turned-patient, being discharged with virus-free blood wasn't the end of his brush with ...

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A new database for researchers to share the genomes of dangerous viruses promises to solve many of the problems that hamper existing alternatives. But first, researchers must be convinced to use it.