ALLMedicine™ Ebola Virus Infection Center

Feb 3rd, 2023 - Ebola virus (EBOV) is the causative agent of the often-fatal Ebola virus disease (EVD) characterized by hemorrhagic fever in humans and non-human primates. Sexual transmission from male survivors has been at the origin of multiple outbreak flare-u...

Nov 16th, 2022 - The unprecedented magnitude of the 2013-2016 Ebola virus (EBOV) epidemic in West Africa resulted in over 11 000 deaths and spurred an international public health emergency. A second outbreak in 2018-2020 in DRC resulted in an additional >3400 case...

Oct 29th, 2022 - Emerging and re-emerging viruses, such as Zaire Ebola virus (EBOV), pose a global threat and require immediate countermeasures, including the rapid development of effective vaccines that are easy to manufacture. Synthetic self-amplifying RNAs (saR...

Oct 10th, 2022 - Between 1994 and the present, there have been several Ebola virus outbreaks affecting mostly countries in Central Africa. However, the 2014 West African outbreak significantly exceeds all previous outbreaks in geographic range and number of indivi...

Jun 12th, 2022 - Adipose tissue is an endocrine organ with strong proinflammatory capacity; however, the role of this tissue in highly pathogenic virus infections has not been extensively examined. We show that mice infected with a mouse-adapted Ebola Virus (EBOV)...

Oct 10th, 2022 - Between 1994 and the present, there have been several Ebola virus outbreaks affecting mostly countries in Central Africa. However, the 2014 West African outbreak significantly exceeds all previous outbreaks in geographic range and number of indivi...

Apr 27th, 2022 - PERSONAL PROTECTION EQUIPMENT AND SARS-CoV-2 CONTAMINATION: An observational quality control study Human-to-human transmission of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) occurs through common routes such as direct transmission, contact transmission and airborne tra...

Feb 17th, 2022 - Ebola virus is one of the most dangerous human pathogens and is an emerging public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa. Ebola virus disease (EVD) first appeared in 1976. The current epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is one of...

Oct 26th, 2021 - Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and has developed into a pandemic with serious global public health and economic sequelae. As of March 30, 2020, over 750,000 cases h...

Sep 8th, 2021 - Species Zaire ebolaviruses (EBOV) are members of the Filoviridae and are known primarily as the underlying cause of severe viral hemorrhagic fevers with disturbingly high case fatality rates. Between 1994 and the present, there have been many filo...

Aug 13th, 2020 - SARS-CoV-2 particles and associated inflammation were seen in the olfactory nervous system of patients who had severe COVID-19, a report from Italy showed. Minimally invasive autopsy with nasal endoscopic dissection showed viral particles and CD16...

Jul 28th, 2018 - PodMed Double T is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, look at the top me...

May 8th, 2018 - Two cases of Ebola virus infection were confirmed in a rural section of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the African nation where the illness first emerged, the Associated Press reported. Last week, officials in Equateur province reported mor...

Nov 28th, 2017 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Newly identified biomarkers may be able to distinguish fatal from nonfatal Ebola infections, ultimately enabling clinicians to prioritize scarce treatment resources, researchers suggest. Dr. Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the Uni...

Mar 2nd, 2017 - The struggle to defeat Ebola virus disease continues globally, although it may not always make the headlines. To catch up on what you may have missed, here are some notable news items and journal articles published over the past few weeks that are.