2021 Ebola Outbreaks in Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo: What We Know. Since the beginning of February, two Ebola patients have died in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and five ...

Aide workers fighting Congo’s Ebola outbreak were accused of raping women as young as 13, forcing abortions and demanding sex in exchange for jobs, a World Health Organization report said.

Suspended animation. For the 2021 strain to have picked up so few mutations in the time since the 2013–2016 outbreak, its normal mutation rate would have needed to drop by a factor of five.

Study: Resurgence of Ebola virus in 2021 in Guinea suggests a new paradigm for outbreaks.Image Credit: David Perieras / Shutterstock.com. Characterizing the outbreak. The index case appeared on ...

The Ebola viruses behind a new outbreak in Guinea are stunningly similar to viruses identified during the massive West Africa outbreak that spanned 2013 to 2016, according to a new genetic analysis.

Ebola survivors can relapse and trigger outbreaks at least five years after infection, and long-term follow-up of former patients is needed to prevent devastating flare-ups, according to new research.

Infection by Ebola virus can be fatal, so understanding what drives human outbreaks might offer better ways to control it. Writing in Nature, Keita et al. 1 provide evidence that the 2021 outbreak ...

Ebola virus may hide in apparently healthy survivors and trigger new disease outbreaks years later, according to a genomic study published in Nature Wednesday, a finding that challenges scientists ...

Madhukar Pai: Ebola disrupted all healthcare services, and many people died of other conditions that could not be managed well. We see the exact same problem unfolding now with Covid-19.

In May 2021, Johnson & Johnson announced it would donate thousands of Ebola vaccine regimens in support of a WHO early access clinical programme launched in response to an outbreak in Guinea and ...

That was U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in April 2015 speaking to world leaders about the Ebola crisis in West Africa. As President Biden and his team asked heads of state and leaders of ...

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