Ebola virus

noun

a highly contagious virus of the family Filoviridae that causes Ebola, a usually fatal disease.

Ebola virus

A virus of African origin, belonging to the genus Filovirus, that causes a highly contagious infection characterized by fever, respiratory symptoms, bleeding, and sometimes central nervous system involvement with coma. In many patients there is progressive organ failure leading to death.

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Rasmussen, for example, has studied Ebola using mouse-adapted Ebola virus, which is a necessary adaptation in order to study the disease in mice in a way that's comparable to humans.

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Uganda has launched a trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of the Ebola virus, following an outbreak in the country that has killed one person and infected two others.

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Unlike the more common Zaire Ebola virus, there is no approved vaccine for the Sudan strain.

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They uncovered how certain viruses, including the deadly Ebola virus, manage to enter human cells.

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The same platform has previously been used to identify how the Ebola virus enters cells.

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Ebola Ebola virus disease

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