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Study reveals Ebola virus can hide in brain, persist even years after treatment
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Study reveals Ebola virus can hide in brain, persist even years after treatment

by US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases Ebola virus (brown) relapses in the brain ventricular system and adjacent neuropil in a rhesus monkey that survived Ebola virus exposure after treatment with monoclonal antibodies. (Nuclei counterstained in blue.) Credit: Dr. Xiankun (Kevin) Zeng, USAMRIID In a groundbreaking study published today, scientists describe how Ebola...

Targeting the shell of the Ebola virus
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Targeting the shell of the Ebola virus

UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE IMAGE: A COILING PROTEIN ‘SHELL,’ CALLED A NUCLEOCAPSID, SHOWN HERE, SURROUNDS EBOLA’S GENETIC MATERIAL, WHICH CONSISTS OF SINGLE-STRAND RNA. As the world grapples with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, another virus has been raging again in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in recent months: Ebola. Since the first terrifying outbreak in 2013,...