On Sept 4, 2025, DR Congo declared its 16th Ebola virus outbreak. The epicentre of this outbreak occurred in the Kasai province—the first resurgence in this region since 2008.1 Genomic analysis ...

Scientists recently published findings indicating that Ebola virus creates and uses intercellular tunnels to move from cell to cell and evade treatments. Understanding how viruses travel once inside ...

New research in the journal Nature Communications gives scientists an important window into how Ebola virus replicates inside host cells. The study, led by scientists at La Jolla Institute for ...

Ebola virus executes its replication cycle through a tightly orchestrated sequence of events, but the host factors that govern the timing of these steps have remained poorly defined. In this talk, I ...

A vaccine that protects monkeys against a lethal dose of Ebola virus has been developed. But there is still a lot to learn about how this vaccine works before a version that can protect humans is ...

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 ...

More than half of survivors of the Sudan Ebola virus still suffer serious health problems two years post-infection and the ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has declared a new Ebola outbreak in Kasai Province. It’s caused by the most ...

Ebola virus is known to be a severe, often fatal haemorrhagic fever in humans caused by four known strains: Zaire, Sudan, Bundibugyo, and Taï Forest ...

Of the new cases, six are confirmed and one is a retrospective probable case. So far 64 cases have been reported, 11 of them ...

Sweat is known to kill germs on your body, and unless it mixes with a cough, sneeze, or other bodily fluids, it won't ...

A research team led by Prof. Ben Ko Chi-bun, Associate Professor of the PolyU Department of Applied Biology and Chemical ...