(Ondrej Prosicky, Getty) Bats are widely recognized as the primary hosts of filoviruses, such as Ebola, yet the specific host species of ebolaviruses are not definitively known. In a study led by the ...

Many viruses have been linked to bats, as they are known disease carriers. The Ebola, Marburg, Nipah, and Hendra viruses […] ...

"If we don't know what the wildlife host is, we can't know how, where or when that will be." Scientists make major ...

Bats harbor many viruses that can spill over into humans, including Marburg, Ebola, and famously SARS-CoV-2. But while these viruses often cause severe illness in humans, they do not appear to hamper ...

The Ebola virus binded poorly to straw-colored fruit bats' NPC1 receptor. "That really struck me," said Anthony, who helped discover the sixth known ebolavirus strain, Bombali virus.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced the release of additional $2 ...

A new study finds that the Sudan virus, a deadly Ebola relative, binds to human NPC1 receptors with nine times greater ...

Uganda began a vaccine trial Monday against the Sudan strain of Ebola that has killed one person in the outbreak declared ...

Cryo-EM structure of Sudan ebolavirus glycoprotein complexed with its human endosomal receptor NPC1 - (https://www.nature.com ...

Uganda battles a deadly Ebola outbreak as health officials rush to launch a trial vaccine against the Sudan strain With no ...

There are no approved vaccines or treatments for Sudan virus disease, which has a 40–70% fatality rate. To curb the ongoing outbreak, Uganda has deployed—under a clinical trial setting—a vaccine ...