The Ebola Virus Disease is one of the only monsters left in our world today. While other mysteries have been solved, conquered and done away with, disease still afflicts people today. Among the many illnesses that afflict our world, those most damaging are usually caused by viruses. Included in t...

Brief Introduction to Ebola Disease • A type of fever • Severe fatal disease in humans and nonhuman primates • Started in 1976 • Named after a river in Democratic Republic of Congo • One of the two members of the RNA viruses called the Filoviridae Four Subgroups of E...

In October of l989, Macaque monkeys, housed at the Reston Primate Quarantine Unit in Reston, Virginia, began dying from a mysterious disease at an alarming rate. The monkeys, imported from the Philippines, were to be sold as laboratory animals. Twenty-nine of a shipment of one hundred died withi...

Scientific researchers at a U.S. military research institute have come a step closer to creating a therapy for the deadly Ebola virus but are a long way from development of a treatment for humans, a study published in Friday's issue of the journal Science said. ``These results suggest that it is...