Following infection, Ebola virus can survive unnoticed in the human body for months or even years, hiding in areas with little immune surveillance like the central nervous system. In doing so, it ...
The mathematical model has been developed by researchers from the University of Cambridge. As well as aiding public health professionals, the model also has the aim of keeping the general public ...
Ebola virus disease, which is caused by RNA viruses within the family Filoviridae such as Zaire, Sudan and Bundibugyo viruses, was first recognized in 1976 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC ...
Outbreaks of viruses like ebola, hantavirus, and nipah are becoming part of a recurring global pattern. A disease that begins ...
Eighty percent of new Ebola cases in eastern Congo are emerging from unknown chains of transmission, according to WHO, a sign ...
The ongoing Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has alarmed global public health experts over the ferocity of the spread in the remote and heavily populated region. Since the ...
The health agency is conducting a trial on the first potentially effective treatments for Bundibugyo virus, while adding the first diagnostic test to its emergency use list.