New research this month shows that the experimental antiviral obeldesivir prevented up to 100% of deaths in monkeys infected ...

Discovered in 1976, Ebola is rare, deadly and has multiple variations. There is a vaccine for the Zaire type, now trials for another are underway.What you need to know: Ebola damages blood vessels ...

Ebola first emerged in 1976 in outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire) and South Sudan (then Sudan), and tracked to bush-meat. Results from virus sequencing of samples from the ...

Monkeys infected with Ebola can be cured with a pill, according to a new study out Friday that could pave the way for more ...

The pill protected 80 per cent of the cynomolgus macaques and 100 per cent of the rhesus macaques, which are biologically ...

The Ebola virus disease outbreak now ravaging parts of West Africa is the largest on record. In fact, West Africa has seen more cases of the disease in 2014 than have been seen in all other ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has voiced its concern over the reappearance and subsequent spread of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a territory formerly known as Zaire. The ...

It is one of several strains of the Ebola virus known to cause outbreaks. Unlike the more common Zaire Ebola virus, there is no approved vaccine for the Sudan strain. However, the government ...

A trial vaccine known as rVSV-ZEBOV, used to vaccinate 3,000 people at risk of infection during an outbreak of the Zaire strain of Ebola in eastern Congo between 2018 and 2020, proved effective in ...