The WHO has held a closed expert meeting to identify potential vaccines for the Bundibugyo species of Ebola that is causing ...

The UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute late Tuesday (September 30) released a new Ebola genome browser to assist global efforts to develop a vaccine and antiserum to help stop the spread of the Ebola ...

May 19, 2026 expert reaction to initial genomes of the Bundibugyo virus from the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda* Scientists comment on genome sequenci ...

International team of scientists show how real-time sequencing and data-sharing can help stop the next outbreak SEATTLE – April 12, 2017 – An international effort to analyze the entire database of ...

A rapidly escalating Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has triggered growing international alarm ...

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 ...

An international effort to analyze the entire database of Ebola virus genomes from the 2013-2016 West African epidemic reveals insights into factors that sped or slowed the rampage and calls for using ...

Although outbreaks of Ebola virus are rare, the disease is severe and often fatal, with few treatment options. Rather than targeting the virus itself, one promising therapeutic approach would be to ...

A new, faster and safer way of diagnosing the Ebola virus has been developed by an academic from Northumbria University, Newcastle. Research led and carried out by Dr Sterghios Moschos at Northumbria ...

At least 130 people thought to have been killed, says Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus before emergency meeting ...

Global health authorities are urgently considering whether experimental vaccines and treatments can be deployed to fight a ...

Eighty people have died in an Ebola outbreak in Ituri province in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This was ...