Scientists recently published findings indicating that Ebola virus creates and uses intercellular tunnels to move from cell to cell and evade treatments. Understanding how viruses travel once inside ...

GALVESTON, Texas — Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have discovered two biochemical pathways that the Ebola virus relies on to infect cells. Using substances that ...

Using a method to observe how the Ebola virus fuses with human cells on the microscopic level in real-time for the first time, researchers from the American Society of Microbiology have identified key ...

Ebola virus causes serious infections in humans and in fatal cases, damage and dysfunction of the liver is often present, suggesting that the liver plays a decisive role in disease outcome. Although ...

The Ebola virus was first identified in 1976 near the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Since then, there have been periodic outbreaks of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), mostly in Africa ...

Good animation by Kurzgesagt explaining how the ebola virus attacks the human body step by step. It turns out that, at the end, it is the immunological system—hacked and threatened by the virus—that ...