A Pill for Ebola? New Drug Shows Up to 100% Survival in Monkeys
New research this month shows that the experimental antiviral obeldesivir prevented up to 100% of deaths in monkeys infected ...
Zooming in on the structure of the lethal Ebola virus
Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility of a ...
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Mystery Illness Kills 60 People In Congo, Victims Died Within 48 Hours Of Showing Symptoms
As of February 16, there were 431 cases and 53 deaths in two outbreaks in remote villages in different health zones in ...
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Ebola Cases in Uganda Rise to 14 as New Cluster Emerges
KAMPALA, Uganda -- Uganda's Ebola caseload increased to 14 in the last week, Africa's top public health agency said Thursday, with a new cluster emerging from a 4-year-old child who recently died of ...
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Clinical Aspects of Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever
Similar to the more widely known Ebola hemorrhagic fever, MHF is characterized by systemic viral replication, immunosuppression and abnormal inflammatory responses. These pathological features of ...
A Deadly Unidentified Disease Has Emerged in the DRC
More than 50 people have died in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, most within 48 hours of the onset of symptoms. Initial analysis suggests neither Ebola nor Marburg is the cause.
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Experts reveal 4 viruses that could trigger the next pandemic – from brain-swelling ‘flu’ to an eye-bleeding fever
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has ruled out the mystery disease being Ebola or Marburg, but say those infected are presenting symptoms of a "hemorrhagic fever". The DRC, in particular ...