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 ...

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.

New construction at a military research site near Moscow reveals a specialized laboratory complex designed to research and handle deadly pathogens, experts say.

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 ...

Lassa fever has similar symptoms to the Ebola virus, causing hemorrhagic fever. However, experts say it's far less likely to be fatal than Ebola. State and federal officials have said the risk of ...

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 ...

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