First discovered in 1967, the filovirus refers to any virus that belongs to the Filoviridae family of viruses that sit within the Mononegavirales order. Three genera are included within the family ...

Image Credit: jaddingt / Shutterstock.com. Characteristics of the virus. Ebola virus belongs to the order Mononegavirales and the family Filoviridae, which is a taxonomic group of non-segmented ...

Ebola virus disease is a serious, often fatal condition in humans and nonhuman primates. Ebola is one of several viral hemorrhagic fevers, caused by infection with a virus of the Filoviridae ...