SK bioscience will partner with Hilleman Laboratories Singapore to develop a low-cost, improved manufacturing process of MSD's second-generation Ebola-Zaire vaccine. SEONGNAM, South Korea, Nov. 22, ...

The Peter Kim Lab was recently awarded $18 million by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness to create a vaccine to protect ...

The first reported outbreak of Ebola virus disease occurred in 1976 in Yambuku, Democratic Republic of Congo. Antibody responses in survivors 11 years after infection have been documented. However, ...

The Ebola virus devastated west Africa in 2014, claiming over 11,000 lives in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. It was the largest Ebola outbreak since the virus had first been discovered in the ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has declared a new Ebola outbreak in Kasai Province. It’s caused by the most severe strain: the Zaire Ebola virus. This outbreak began with a 34-year-old ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first vaccine for the prevention of Ebola caused by the deadly Zaire strain of the virus, which killed more than 11,000 people during the ...

Few viruses are more feared than Ebola virus, the deadly microbe that periodically attacks African villages and kills up to 90 percent of those it infects. Although other viral diseases claim more ...

DAKAR, March 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Scientists tackling an outbreak of Ebola in Guinea believe they have identified the virus as the Zaire strain, the most lethal of all that "raises the ...

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) have engineered the first antibodies that can potently neutralize the ...

More than half of survivors of the Sudan Ebola virus still suffer serious health problems two years post-infection and the virus can persist in semen and breast milk for months after recovery, ...