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Until this week, the deadly Ebola virus that has claimed nearly 900 lives had seemed an ocean away. Now amid recent scares of infected Americans and patients possibly flying from Africa onto U.S. s… ...

Ebola virus (EBOV) has caused the most disease, 15 out of 25 outbreaks across history. It's behind the 2014 epidemic (outbreak 25) and the first outbreak from 1976.

Regardless of the exact explanation, the possibility that natural selection might favor Ebola evolving to become more lethal is troublesome. Notes (1) Herpes is most infectious during outbreaks, but a ...

This post was originally published on Aug. 21 and updated on Sep. 30 to reflect the latest numbers from the World Health Organization. As of Sep. 30, the Ebola virus had killed more than 3,000 ...

Average inter-epidemic interval of Ebola virus John M. Drake From this perspective, the frequency of outbreaks now is not meaningfully different than it was in the 1970s, when Ebola was described.

Nobody knows for sure how long the Ebola virus can survive outside a host. But 2007 study suggests that viral particles can survive for at least six hours at sub-Saharan Africa room temperatures ...

Ebola is only contagious when patients begin showing symptoms. Infection control measures in place in U.S. hospitals means it's unlikely the virus will spread far, according to infectious disease ...

Ebola survivors can relapse and trigger outbreaks at least five years after infection, and long-term follow-up of former patients is needed to prevent devastating flare-ups, according to new research.

“That seems the most likely explanation. The immune system is already finding the Plasmodium parasite and it doesn’t need to start up to fight the Ebola virus,” De Wit said. The opposite ...

Ebola virus polymerase is already known as a hard-working protein - all Ebola viral proteins have to be. Ebola virus is a highly efficient pathogen because it gets by with just seven genes (humans ...

No new Ebola infections have been detected in Uganda for 42 days, and so on Wednesday, the World Health Organization and the Ugandan Ministry of Health officially declared that the country’s ...