Exclusive: Inside the Thriving Wild-Animal Markets That Could Start the Next Pandemic. Live-animal markets are a natural laboratory for viruses to evolve and spark deadly outbreaks, yet scientists ...

Monkeys infected with Ebola can be cured using a pill, a new study has found which could revolutionise the fight against the deadly virus. Thomas Geisbert, a virologist at The University of Texas ...

Datti stated that there is no case of Ebola virus disease in Nigeria, but the NCDC, in collaboration with relevant ministries, departments, agencies, and partners through the National Emerging ...

Following the confirmation of an Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in Uganda, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has intensified surveillance at the country’s points of entry ...

Six species of the virus are known to cause disease in humans -- Zaire, Sudan, Bundibugyo, Reston, Tai Forest and Bombali.

Uganda's ministry of health has confirmed a new outbreak of the Ebola virus in the capital, Kampala, with one reported death. The victim was a 32-year-old male nurse whose symptoms included "high ...

Ebola virus (Zaire ebolavirus) Sudan virus (Sudan ebolavirus) Taï Forest virus (Taï Forest ebolavirus, formerly Côte d’Ivoire ebolavirus) Bundibugyo virus (Bundibugyo ebolavirus) ...

Ebola viruses (EBOVs) assemble into filamentous virions, whose shape and stability are determined by the matrix viral protein 40 (VP40). Virus entry into host cells occurs via membrane fusion in late ...

As 2024 draws to a close, scientists are raising concerns about five high-risk diseases that could trigger outbreaks in Africa in 2025. Polio, Ebola, Chikungunya, Zika and Mpox remain persistent ...

The diseases include Ebola, Polio, Chikungunya,Zika Virus and Mpox. Reserachers disclose that based on their observations it will take more than 50 years before the continent has access to a full ...