An outbreak of Ebola disease in Uganda is a result of Sudan virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed. Samples from a patient in the Mubende district of central Uganda tested positive ...

Filoviruses get their name from the Latin word "filum," meaning thread—a reference to their long, filamentous shape. This ...

Ebola still exists in Africa, years after the last heavily publicized epidemic impacted the world from 2014 to 2016. Scientists cannot pinpoint exactly where an Ebola outbreak begins, but they know ...

Recent news about the spread of Ebola has many Americans concerned. The risk to Americans is extremely low. This page is a resource for accurate and up-to-date information about Ebola and includes ...

Ebola cases are very rare in the United States. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has for the first time approved a vaccine for the prevention of the deadly Ebola virus disease. The agency ...

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Organoids with both intestinal and colonic regions are able to better represent the human GI tract with Ebola and Marburg infections.

Officials confirmed Wednesday suspected German cases of the deadly Marburg virus tested negative, following fears the Ebola-like virus spread to the European country, as experts in several African ...

Researchers at the University of Iowa (UI) Health Care and colleagues at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute, and Boston University, used human skin explants to track the cellular route that the ...

Concern over Ebola becoming endemic in West Africa has appeared in the medical and lay media. Routes of transmission, rates of viral evolution, suitability of humans as hosts and rarity of spillover ...

This July, the World Health Organization declared that an outbreak of Ebola in the provinces of Ituri and North-Kivu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, was a “public health emergency of ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown species of Ebola virus, called Bombali virus, that's carried by at least two species of bats in Sierra Leone. This is the first Ebola virus species ...