Study findings spotlight a highly potent source of Ebola virus shedding with the potential for person-to-person transmission.

Ebola: New studies model a deadly epidemic Date: February 6, 2015 Source: Arizona State University Summary: Researchers are trying to better understand the epidemiology and control of Ebola Virus ...

The Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a deadly infection that is highly contagious. It has taken thousands of lives across history, with a number of outbreaks mostly happening in West Africa. In the ...

Bats are widely recognized as the primary hosts of filoviruses, such as Ebola, yet the specific host species of ebolaviruses are not definitively known. In a study led by the University of ...

Ecologists have developed a model that maps the likelihood of Ebola virus “spillovers”—when the virus jumps from its long-term host to humans or animals such as great apes—across Africa on ...

Our model, created in consultation with scientists, was able to identify ecological factors that were common to past Ebola spillovers.

USAMRIID’s team, led by Dr. Xiankun (Kevin) Zeng, used a nonhuman primate model to examine the relationships of new therapeutic strategies to both Ebola virus persistence and long-term outcomes ...

Ours is the first study to reveal the hiding place of brain Ebola virus persistence and the pathology causing subsequent fatal recrudescent Ebola virus-related disease in the nonhuman primate model.

In the wake of DR Congo's outbreak, an international team of researchers reviewed 37 models to develop gold-standard recommendations that minimize the spread of the disease.

As the lethal Ebola virus moves with unprecedented speed through West Africa, it remains a disease without a drug.

The Ebola virus has become notorious, not only for its highly contagious and lethal nature, but for the nightmarish assortment of symptoms collectively known as hemorrhagic fever.

On Dec. 26, 2013, a two-year-old boy living in the Guinean village of Meliandou, Guéckédou Prefecture was stricken with a rare disease, caused by the filament-shaped Ebola virus.