A day after getting exposed to the Ebola virus, ten monkeys then received an Obeldesivir pill daily for ten days, while three control monkeys received no treatment and died. The study found that ...

New research this month shows that the experimental antiviral obeldesivir prevented up to 100% of deaths in monkeys infected ...

The WHO ranks Disease X alongside Covid, Ebola, Zika virus, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars). Covid was ...

The country is presently battling its eighth Ebola outbreak, confirmed by the Ministry of Health in January, with two ...

In her new book 'A History of the World in Six Plagues,' Edna Bonhomme describes a 2014 epidemic that decimated a neighborhood — possibly foreshadowing what's to come.

As well as protecting the monkeys from death, the treatment also evoked an immune response. Senior author Dr Thomas Geisbert ...

The team infected rhesus and cynomolgus macaques with a high dose of the Makona variant of the Ebola virus. A day after ...

Test results have ruled out similar hemorrhagic diseases such as Ebola and Marburg virus. Testing and contact tracing are continuing in affected locations by teams of local staff and WHO officials.

The East African country declared an outbreak of the highly infectious and often fatal hemorrhagic ... other cities. Ebola symptoms include fever, headache and muscle pains. The virus is ...

Scientists suspect the first person infected with Ebola in an outbreak acquired the virus through contact ... latest in a trend of outbreaks of viral hemorrhagic fevers in the east African region.

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