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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.

One of these, A82V, looked like it was especially important, because it affected small molecules called glycoproteins on the virus’s surface. If you look at Ebola under a microscope, you’ll ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ebola virus polymerase is already known as a hard-working protein—all Ebola viral proteins have to be. Ebola virus is a highly efficient pathogen because it gets by with just seven genes (humans ...

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 ...

Americans' introduction to the Ebola virus came 25 years ago in an office park near Washington Dulles International Airport, ... Though its appearance under a microscope is similar to the Zaire ...

The Ebola virus under a microscope. Photo by Nixx Photography via Shutterstock.com “Given the unmet medical need and the untapped potential of host-directed antivirals, these results with opaganib, an ...

More information: Kathryn M. Hastie et al, Anti-Ebola virus mAb 3A6 protects highly viremic animals from fatal outcome via ...

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.