New research this month shows that the experimental antiviral obeldesivir prevented up to 100% of deaths in monkeys infected ...

According to a new study, an experiment on monkeys has shown that Ebola can be cured with just a pill. First discovered in ...

The team infected rhesus and cynomolgus macaques with a high dose of the Makona variant of the Ebola virus. A day after ...

The pill protected 80 per cent of the cynomolgus macaques and 100 per cent of the rhesus macaques, which are biologically ...

As well as protecting the monkeys from death, the treatment also evoked an immune response. Senior author Dr Thomas Geisbert ...

The successful treatment of eight patients who had been ... Tracing contacts is key to stemming the spread of Ebola, and there are no approved vaccines for the Sudan strain of Ebola that's ...

Eight infected people were found and the patients underwent treatment at the Ebola Treatment Unit in Kampala and Mbale Regional Referral Hospital in eastern Uganda. Over 200 contacts were also ...

The 4-year-old was taken for treatment at four different health facilities before being diagnosed with Ebola, meaning that many of those who have potentially been exposed to the virus are health ...

However, the recently reported recovery and discharge of all eight Ebola patients who got supportive treatment in Mulago and Mbale hospitals indicates a shift, sparking both celebration and inquiry.