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

According to a new study, an experiment on monkeys has shown that Ebola can be cured with just a pill. First discovered in ...

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

The pill protected 80 per cent of the cynomolgus macaques and 100 per cent of the rhesus macaques, which are biologically ...

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

During the 2014 West Africa outbreak—during which more than 11,000 people died—USAID oversaw training of local health-care workers, the building of Ebola treatment centers, and passenger ...

The 4-year-old was taken for treatment at four different health facilities before being diagnosed with Ebola, meaning that many of those who have potentially been exposed to the virus are health ...

The successful treatment of eight patients who had been ... Tracing contacts is key to stemming the spread of Ebola, and there are no approved vaccines for the Sudan strain of Ebola that's ...

Africa’s top public health agency says that Uganda’s Ebola caseload increased to 14 in the last week with a new cluster emerging from a 4-year-old child who recently died of the infectious disease ...