Scientists have successfully blocked the Ebola infection in cell-culture experiments, in a critical early step to develop a vaccine for the life-threatening virus. The Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa, the largest in...
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a branch of the National Institutes of Health, recently announced that an Ebola vaccine study has made a milestone achievement by enrolling 1,500...
A device about the size of a small chocolate bar could offer a way to sequence the genomes of viruses. When poor countries, with limited infrastructure, experience disease outbreaks – as happened with Ebola in West...
Two new rapid-acting Ebola vaccines have passed over hurdles: They have protected monkeys against the strain of the deadly virus that caused the recent outbreak in West Africa. The vaccines worked against Ebola in one...
Haunted by the public health community’s failure to prevent or contain Ebola, a top Houston expert is spearheading a government-sponsored effort to prepare North Africa and the Middle East so that the region...
A growing risk of outbreaks of measles, pertussis, and other vaccine-preventable diseases in countries affected by Ebola must be countered by urgent scaling up of routine immunization activities, according to the World...
Two experimental Ebola vaccinations “appear to be safe” after testing in Liberia. Meanwhile, a British nurse has been cleared of the virus, but doctors cautioned speculation about the drug’s role in her recovery. The...
World Health Organization (WHO) and Guinean government officials have launched the first trial of an Ebola vaccine in Basse-Guinee, a community affected by the virus during the past year. VSV-EBOV, a leading Ebola...
Putting an end to a lethal virus may mean going directly to the source, as one study suggests a possible approach to stopping the transmission of the Ebola virus. Michael Jarvis, PhD, and his Plymouth University...
Researchers at Vanderbilt University, the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and The Scripps Research Institute, for the first time have shown how human antibodies can neutralize the Marburg virus, a close...