Ebola virus disease is a rare but often deadly condition ... Ultimately, they cause levels of blood-clotting cells to drop. This can lead to severe, uncontrollable bleeding. While Ebola outbreaks ...

If Ebola virus was in his body ... whose body serves as its primary environment and whose cell machinery it can co-opt for reproducing. Some harmful viruses abide in nonhuman animals and only ...

to the surface of infected VERO E6 cells (orange ... infectious viral hemorrhagic fever in the same family as Ebola. The virus is initially transmitted to people from fruit bats and spreads ...

In part 1 of this exclusive video interview, MedPage Today 's editor-in-chief Jeremy Faust, MD, talks with Craig Spencer, MD, MPH, of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, about the 10-year ...

from the Ebola virus. This protein is crucial for the virus to enter and infect host cells. The scientists conducted their ...

work by attacking the Ebola virus with antibodies, neutralising its impact on human cells. They are the "first drugs that, in a scientifically sound study, have clearly shown a significant ...

The rare viral hemorrhagic fever can be transmitted among humans through infected body fluids, but not casual contact such as ...

‘Filming’ viruses at atomic resolution Filoviruses, such as the Ebola virus and Marburg ... by focusing on the entry of a virus into a host cell, which is the first stage of virus infection.

A person from Iowa who recently returned to the United States from West Africa has died after contracting Lassa fever, a ...

The middle-aged resident had returned to Iowa from West Africa early in October, Iowa public health officials said.

These viruses have only the capsid surrounding their genetic material. A virus budding from a host cell membrane. This sequence of steps forms the virus’s envelope. A host is an organism that a ...

The resident had recently returned from West Africa. Iowa health officials say the risk of transmission is "incredibly low." Also in the news, locally acquired malaria, "walking pneumonia" in children ...