American researchers announce the development of a new vaccine against a highly-dangerous species of the ebolavirus. Their accomplishment could mean the eradication of a major pathogen for humans, while opening the way for studies on creating vaccines against other ebolavirus species as well.
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21 November 2011
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Normally, there is no cure or vaccine for the Ebola virus, but a new research carried out by scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago discovered a family of small molecules that can bind to the outer protein coat of the virus and prevent it from entering human cells.Duncan Wardrop, associate professor of c... |
20 January 2011
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Ebola is one of the most deadly viruses on the face of the Earth, and, although it has mostly been eradicated from most parts of the world, it still poses a threat of infection, if new strains appear. Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston have recently taken the first steps towards creati... |
24 June 2009
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40 years after it was first reported in Europe, the Marburg virus returns and it seems that it has claimed its first victim on July 11, when a woman returning from a trip in Uganda died in a hospital in Leiden, Netherlands. According to NewScientist magazine, the 40 year old woman had visited a series of caves approx... |
15 July 2008
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This mysterious virus can kill you in just one week while you're experiencing jaundice, pancreatitis, weight loss, delirium and neuropsychiatric symptoms, hemorrhaging, hypovolemic shock and multi-organ dysfunction with liver failure and even external hemorrhaging from bodily orifices, just like in Ebola. 23-25%... |
31 August 2007
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