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For instance, the 2013–2016 West African Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic caused 11,325 deaths among 28,600 infected people while another outbreak between 2018 and 2020 in Democratic Republic ...

After a lull in Ebola cases in West Africa in the early summer of 2014, the virus began to spread in the Liberian capital of Monrovia in July, which meant that public health measures came to a ...

New research led by scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) reveals the workings of a human antibody called mAb 3A6, which may prove to be an important component for Ebola virus ...