On Oct. 13, 1976, exactly 38 years ago Monday, Frederick A. Murphy, a CDC virologist and expert in photographing viruses peered into a microscope and saw what he describes today as a “dark ...

The Ebola virus, which under a microscope resembles spaghetti, is thought to come from a fruit bat bite. There are five types of the virus, and four of them can make humans severely ill.

The best way to describe the reaction to an outbreak of Ebola virus was penned by Dr. C.J. Peters in his book, Virus Hunter. Known as “the pucker factor,” it consists of “…an uncomfortable ...

In December 2013, in a small village in Guinea, the Ebola virus left its traditional host—probably a bat—and infected a young boy. That leap triggered what became the largest Ebola outbreak in ...

With the spotlight on Ebola during the last month, a focus also is shifting to the people at the frontlines caring for those patients. Ebola is a deadly virus that has devastated five African ...

No, I would have insisted on going big: The electron microscope. These instruments, which can magnify objects 10 million times, produce breathtaking images (like this and this) and are widely used ...

Americans' introduction to the Ebola virus came 25 years ago in an office park in Virginia.

The Ebola virus can hide in the brains of monkeys that have recovered after medical treatment without causing symptoms and lead to recurrent infections, according to a study by a team I led that ...

New research led by scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) reveals the workings of a human antibody called mAb 3A6, which may prove to be an important component for Ebola virus ...

The Ebola virus that's causing the devastating outbreak in West Africa didn't even have a name just 38 years ago when it first surfaced and caused a mysterious illness among villagers in Zaire ...

The researchers wanted to understand how this viral machine functions inside viral factories. Ebola virus polymerase is already known as a hard-working protein—all Ebola viral proteins have to be.

The Ebola virus that's causing the devastating outbreak in West Africa didn't even have a name just 38 years ago when it first surfaced and caused a mysterious illness among villagers in Zaire ...