The Ebola virus is one of the most virulent microbes known to man, killing up to 90% of those infected. According to the World Health Organization, there have been 25 disease outbreaks in recorded ...

The figures are frightening. As you can see from the above chart, the death toll for Ebola virus disease in West Africa has now passed 4000. The total number of cases exceeds 8000. In terms of ...

Even in West Africa, where an Ebola outbreak is currently raging, the much-feared virus is relatively rare. But since the first documented human outbreak in 1976, Ebola has re-emerged more than a ...

The survival rate in all previous outbreaks of the Ebola virus EBOV (formerly called Zaire ebolavirus) has been about 20 percent. ... which could bump Ebola up to the third slot on this chart.

A 40-second video clip has been going viral by showing how coronavirus compares to other infamous illnesses, but what's being shared thousands of times leaves out some key context. The animation in ...

Ebola virus disease (EVD), formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever, is a severe, ... Follow the Protocol described in the Ebola flow chart and read the addendum on it.

But measles, viral infection of the respiratory system, immune system, and skin, spreads quickly — so fast that it's roughly 9 times more contagious than Ebola. For every person who has measles ...

The Ebola vaccine rVSV-ZEBOV was approved by the FDA in 2019 but only protects against Zaire ebolavirus, or Ebola virus proper, not any of the other three human-contracted Ebola-causing viruses.

Now, even as the death toll in West Africa rises steadily towards the 10,000 mark, the frequency of Google searches on Ebola in the U.S. have leveled off to numbers similar to July, when the ...

This antibody was isolated from blood samples from an Ebola survivor treated at Emory University Hospital during the ...

Ebola spreads through contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person and has a fatality rate of about 50%. More than 11,300 people died during the 2013-2016 outbreak in West Africa. 5 ...