Genetic sequencing showed that several Ebola strains were involved, which indicated multiple introductions of virus into the animal populations. Transmission might have required exposure to fresh ...

This vaccine is designed for use against the Zaire strain of Ebola, which caused both this outbreak and the previous one. Getty Images Scientists and health workers set to work tracking all ...

Another concern is that this is the Sudan strain of Ebola, for which there is no approved vaccine, unlike the more common Zaire strain. The Health Ministry has said three candidate vaccines from ...

Ebola virus, being highly pathogenic for humans and non-human primates and the subject of former weapons programmes, is now one of the most feared pathogens worldwide. In addition, the lack of pre ...

Mortality rates from Ebola outbreaks can be as high as 90%, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and ...

The paper, by Stephen K. Gire at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, and colleagues was titled, "Genomic surveillance elucidates Ebola virus origin and transmission during the 2014 outbreak." ...

US-based Merck said the FDA had accepted its filing for the investigational Ebola Zaire strain vaccine known as V920, adding that the regulator is due to make a decision by March 14 next year ...

Ebola first emerged in 1976 in outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire) and South Sudan (then Sudan), and tracked to bush-meat. Results from virus sequencing of samples from the ...

N EW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — In today’s health headlines, what to know about the new COVID XEC strain, an ebola-like virus is ...