Filoviruses get their name from the Latin word "filum," meaning thread—a reference to their long, filamentous shape. This virus family contains some of the most dangerous pathogens known to science, ...

Filoviruses are among the globe's most lethal—indeed, so dangerous they can be handled only in high-security laboratories. Yet, more than five decades after the discovery of the Marburg virus and ...

Filoviruses get their name from the Latin word "filum," meaning thread-a reference to their long, filamentous shape. This virus family contains some of the most dangerous pathogens known to science, ...

Filoviruses are negative-sense and single-stranded ribonucleic acid (RNA) viruses. The most well-known human-infecting filoviruses are marburgviruses and ebolaviruses. Infection can result in ...

In the midst of the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and in the absence of antiviral medications for the disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) has issued updated ...

An illustration of a self-assembling protein nanoparticle (SApNP) displaying Ebola virus surface proteins. This vaccine strategy is designed to help the immune system more effectively and respond to ...

"Filoviruses demand better solutions—outbreaks have been devastating, with extremely high mortality rates," says senior author Jiang Zhu, professor in the Department of Integrative Structural and ...