But more recent outbreaks, including the 2013–2016 Ebola epidemic in West Africa, demonstrated that infectious Ebola virus (EBOV) is also found on the skin's surface of those who have succumbed ...

EBOV became a real threat to public health when it re-emerged in Kikwit, Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 1995. This outbreak received much attention from the media and made EBOV one of the ...

As well as demonstrating that human skin specimens actively support EBOV infection, the study results also suggest that the skin’s surface may be one route of person-to-person transmission.

The Ad5-EBOV vaccine developed in China relies on the recombinant replication-defective human adenovirus type-5 vector to induce immune responses and provide protection against the Ebola virus.