Previous research has identified the presence of the Ebola virus (EBOV) on the surface of the skin during the latter stages of infection, but the details of how it got there were unclear. To ...

in addition demonstrated that infectious Ebola virus is also found on the skin’s surface of those who have succumbed to infection or at late times during infection. Past studies in animal models ...

A POTENTIAL new outbreak of Ebola has sickened at least 12 people and killed eight in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It ...

Although evidence suggests that Ebola virus can be passed on from skin contact with a person in the later stages of the disease, very little is known about how the virus makes its way out of the b ...

Ebola outbreak has been declared in Africa this week, with up to nine people already dead. Uganda reported an outbreak in the capital, Kampala, with the first case being a man who died on ...

The Ministry of Health has issued a public alert following the declaration of an outbreak of the Sudan Ebola Virus Disease in ...

After the first Ebola death in Uganda in years, a senior health official says authorities in the African nation are "in full ...

The findings of a new study suggest that the virus behind Ebola – a rare but severe and often fatal illness – may be spread by skin contact, by providing a comprehensive cellular map of its ...