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Ebola vaccine cuts fatality even in people who were infected before the jab, new study shows

A new study has shown that people vaccinated against Ebola who still developed the disease had a substantially lower risk of dying than people who were not vaccinated, even if they received the vaccine when they were...

21 February, 2024

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Experimental NIH Sudan virus vaccine protects macaques

New inoculation based on Ebola VSV vaccine concept. A National Institutes of Health research group with extensive experience studying ebolavirus countermeasures has successfully developed a vaccine against Sudan virus...

6 February, 2023

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Uganda declares Ebola Virus Disease outbreak

The health authorities in Uganda declared an outbreak of Ebola after a case of the Sudan ebolavirus was confirmed in Mubende district in the central part of the country. The Uganda Virus Research Institute confirmed the...

21 September, 2022

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Cholera and measles kill hundreds, while polio reappears in Congo

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New Ebola outbreak declared in the Democratic Republic of Congo

The health authorities of the African nation declared a new outbreak of Ebola after a case was confirmed in Mbandaka, a city in the north-western Equateur Province, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on...

25 April, 2022

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Ebola virus hides out in brain

Monkeys treated with monoclonal antibodies fully recovered, but infection recurred The Ebola virus can hide in the brains of monkeys that have recovered after medical treatment without causing symptoms and lead to...

18 April, 2022

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Targeting the shell of the Ebola virus for a knock-out with antivirals

How can we battle these infectious agents such as Ebola virus disease (EVD) that reproduce by hijacking cells and reprogramming them into virus-replicating machines? A research team led by Professor Juan Perilla at the...

27 October, 2020

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New universal Ebola vaccine may fight all four virus species that infect humans

Infectious disease scientists report early development of a potential universal vaccine for Ebola viruses that preclinical tests show might neutralize all four species of these deadly viruses infecting people in recent...

24 April, 2020

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Study vaccine protects monkeys against four types of hemorrhagic fever viruses

Scientists, funded by the National Institutes of Health, have developed an investigational vaccine that protected cynomolgus macaques against four types of hemorrhagic fever viruses endemic to overlapping regions in...

10 November, 2019

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Researchers decode the immune response to Ebola vaccine

The vaccine rVSV-EBOV is currently used in the fight against Ebola virus. Since 2018, more than 200,000 people have been vaccinated. However, how the vaccine actually works was only partially known. The research team...

20 October, 2019

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Researchers find building mutations into Ebola virus protein disrupts ability to cause disease and activates protective immunity researchers find building mutations into Ebola virus protein disrupts ability to cause disease and activates protective immunity

Creating mutations in a key Ebola virus protein that helps the deadly virus escape from the body’s defenses can make the virus unable to produce sickness and activate protective immunity in the infected host, according...

18 September, 2019

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