Filoviruses—such as Ebola and Marburg viruses—can cause hemorrhagic fevers with up to 90% lethality. Not only that, but there are very few tools (vaccines or drugs) to combat them. Now, scientists at ...
A research team led by Prof. Ben Ko Chi-bun, Associate Professor of the PolyU Department of Applied Biology and Chemical ...
Tetrandrine, a compound isolated from the root of a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) Stephania tetrandra, has shown promise ...
More than half of survivors of the Sudan Ebola virus still suffer serious health problems two years post-infection and the ...
The Ebola virus devastated west Africa in 2014, claiming over 11,000 lives in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. It was the largest Ebola outbreak since the virus had first been discovered in the ...
An Ebola doctor-turned-patient had virus in his eyeball months after recovery. — -- For one Ebola doctor-turned-patient, being discharged with virus-free blood wasn't the end of his brush with ...
Also known by its brand name Ebanga, the drug targets glycoprotein, the protein that allows the Ebola virus to infect cells, and prevents it from attaching to the host cells and replicating. The WHO ...
GENEVA (Reuters) -Health facilities in the epicentre of an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo are overwhelmed and essential supplies are running out, the International Federation of ...