Duke University Develops Portable Diagnostic to Detect Early Biomarkers of Ebola Virus
An interdisciplinary team of scientists at Duke University has developed a highly sensitive and rapid diagnostic test for Ebola virus ...
Tag: Ebola
Ebola Might Be a Chronic Infection – But Here’s Why We Shouldn’t Panic
Ebola is back in Guinea in West Africa, five years after the largest Ebola epidemic ever known ended – but ...
NBACC: Past Bioagent Research Informs Current and Future Pandemic Response
Like many U.S. research and development agencies, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) was forced to shift ...
Ebola: CDC to Require Airlines to Collect Passenger Information if Traveling from DRC and Guinea
Starting Thursday, March 4, 2021, airlines and other aircraft operators will be required to collect and transmit contact information to ...
Why Ebola is Back in Guinea and Why the Response Must Be Different This Time
New reports of Ebola in Guinea are causing anxiety given the history of the West Africa outbreak of 2014-2016. This ...
Thin Film Freezing Shows Efficacy for Biodefense Countermeasures Against Alphaviruses and Filoviruses
TFF Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing innovative drug products based on its patented thin-film ...
Ebola Strikes West Africa Again: Key Questions and Lessons from the Past
News of a new outbreak of Ebola in Guinea is indeed distressing. The last in West Africa occurred between 2014 ...
One Drug to Defeat All Filoviruses?
While vaccines for Ebola virus are being deployed and show high efficacy, pan-filoviral treatment is still lacking. Researchers have identified ...
Human Spillover Potential of Reston Ebolavirus Noted by NIAID Study
New research shows pigs could serve as amplifying hosts for Reston ebolavirus. Reston ebolavirus (RESTV) should be considered a livestock ...
Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Ends
Today marks 42 days, or two incubation periods, since the last survivor tested negative for Ebola Virus Disease (Ebola) in ...
Targeting the Shell of the Ebola Virus for a Knock-Out with Antivirals
How can we battle these infectious agents such as Ebola virus disease (EVD) that reproduce by hijacking cells and reprogramming ...
FDA Approves First Ebola Therapeutic
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration this week approved Inmazeb, previously called REGN-EB3, a mixture of three monoclonal antibodies made ...
The Coping Mechanisms the DRC is Putting in Place As it Faces Ebola, Measles and COVID-19
Ebola, a viral haemorrhagic fever of humans and other primates, has become endemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). ...
FDA Accepts for Priority Review for REGN-EB3 to Treat Ebola
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for Priority Review a new ...
New Universal Ebola Vaccine May Fight All Four Virus Species that Infect Humans
Infectious disease scientists report early development of a potential universal vaccine for Ebola viruses that preclinical tests show might neutralize ...
Soligenix Announces Successful Demonstration of Heat Stabilization for Filovirus Vaccine Platform
Soligenix, Inc. announced that its ongoing collaboration with the University of Hawai’i at Manoa (UHM) and Hawaii Biotech Inc. (HBI) ...
Health Security Today – 27 Feb 2020
FEATURED POLICY + PREPAREDNESS Schumer Proposes $8.5 Billion in Emergency Coronavirus Funding Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today released ...
U.S. Ebola Treatment Center Costs and Sustainability if Federal Funding Withdrawn
In 2014, a tiered network of facilities to manage patients with Ebola virus disease (EVD) was established in the United ...
Ebola Still Constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern
The second-biggest Ebola outbreak in history, which has upended life in eastern Congo's North Kivu and Ituri provinces since August ...
New Method Predicts Individual Response to Ebola Infection
Not everyone who catches Ebola dies of the hemorrhagic virus infection. Some people mount a robust immune defense and recover ...
