Yesterday the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that last patient being treated for Ebola virus disease in an ...

The countdown to declare the end of an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has begun after the last ...

Ebola is one of the nasty viruses that can hide in the body even after a patient recovers and tests negative. It can reemerge ...

The Ebola virus devastated west Africa in 2014, claiming over 11,000 lives in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. It was the largest Ebola outbreak since the virus had first been discovered in the ...

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 Republic of Congo has stepped up surveillance and prevention measures along its border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after the Ebola virus resurfaced in the latter country’s Kasaï ...

The World Health Organisation said 57 cases and 35 deaths have been reported since the outbreak was announced by Congolese authorities on September 4, with a fatality rate of over 61 per cent. It is ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

Scientists recently published findings indicating that Ebola virus creates and uses intercellular tunnels to move from cell to cell and evade treatments. Understanding how viruses travel once inside ...

The combination of two chemotherapy drugs effectively inhibited both dengue and Ebola virus in mice, though the two viruses are distinctly different from one another, according to a new study ...

The deadly human ebola virus has been found in three of seven dead laboratory monkeys checked so far out of a larger shipment ...

The last Ebola patient in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been discharged, marking an important milestone in the ...