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

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

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 ...

Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility of a ...

When COVID-19 arrived in the United States five years ago, the emergence of the new virus was no surprise for pandemic expert ...

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 ...

The virus is transmitted through contact with ... Existing vaccines are for the Zaire strain of Ebola, which was behind recent outbreaks in neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo.