What you need to know: Ebola damages blood vessels and causes severe, internal bleeding It spreads from animals to humans, ...

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 ...

Every Ebola patient in the U.S. has received an experimental treatment. — -- intro: Federal officials have confirmed that medical teams have given two Ebola-infected nurses from Dallas ...

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 ...

African straw-colored fruit bats are among those researchers have determined are not likely hosts of ebolaviruses. (Ondrej Prosicky, Getty) Bats are widely recognized as the primary hosts of ...

Viruses are tiny — and sneaky. So sneaky that some play a deadly game of hide and seek. The "seek" part is all too familiar: They're always looking for ways to infect humans. Their ability to hide is ...

Filoviruses such as Ebola virus (EBOV) and Marburg virus (MARV) can cause viral hemorrhagic fever, with fatality rates reaching up to 90%. During the 2013–2016 Ebola epidemic in West Africa, more than ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a new health advisory about the latest outbreak of Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Thirty-seven confirmed cases ...

The government's vaccine campaign, developed in collaboration with global health organizations including Gavi, the World Health Organization and UNICEF, is set to reach 20,000 frontline workers ...

Ten years after Emory University treated the first patients with the Ebola virus in the U.S., the team behind that critical care is opening a new lab to further study how to prevent the spread of ...

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