The Ebola virus has five species, and each species has caused outbreaks in different regions. Experts were surprised to see that instead of the Taï Forest Ebola virus, which is found near Guinea ...

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.

Studies are underway in the Tai Forest to search for the reservoir. Shedding some light on the issue are findings from a lab in South Africa where local animals were inoculated with the Ebola virus.

Ebola is an often-deadly virus found primarily in Central and West Africa. It was first discovered in 1976 in Sudan and in Congo near the Ebola River, thus the name. There are five strains of the ...

It encodes glycoproteins from Ebola, Sudan and Marburg viruses, as well as the nucleoprotein from the Tai Forest virus. In the study, the two vaccines were administered to 583 people.

Ebola virus, together with the ... Taï Forest ebolavirus. A source of the virus was an infected ethnologist who performed a necropsy on a chimpanzee while working in the Tai Forest reserve in ...

Since then, there have been five identified Ebola virus strains, four of which are known to cause disease in humans: Ebola virus (Zaire ebolavirus); Sudan virus (Sudan ebolavirus); Taï Forest ...

Ebola is a viral hemorrhagic fever first discovered in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Six species of the virus are known to cause disease in humans -- Zaire, Sudan, Bundibugyo, Reston, Tai ...

When the 2014 Ebola outbreak began, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recognized that it wasn’t fully prepared if someone with the virus entered the United States and spread ...

The highly contagious Ebola virus has claimed more than 15,000 lives since it was first identified in central Africa in 1976. ... Zaire, Sudan, Bundibugyo, Reston, Tai Forest and Bombali.

The monkeys were given an Ebola virus dose which is roughly 30,000 times the lethal dose for humans. ... Zaire, Sudan, Bundibugyo, Reston, Tai Forest and Bombali.