Ebola Definition and 19 Threads

This week, the US National Institutes of Health released an update on a trial in the Democratic Republic of the Congo comparing the effectiveness of two new antibody-based drugs (REGN-EB3 and mAb114) against existing treatments for Ebola (ZMapp and remdesivir). The trial was halted early...

Lancet has a report of a vaccine for the Ebola virus.

I have looked in a lot of different websites for a explanation of the mechanism of the ebolavirus to infect our body: how it avoid our immunology system, what it exactly change from our DNA and the consequences in the body. I didn't found a clear information, can someone help me to understand ebola?

Ebola - chimpanzee - not fatal - bush meat - fatal to humans - why?

I was just wondering if some bacteria or nanotechnology could be genetically engineered to target the Ebola strains? Is this possible? If it is then why is no one coming up with a cure?

Have any of you been tracking the rate of new Ebola infections? It seems that there is pretty clear exponential growth, and the virus is anything but contained. Is anyone else bothered by this? By looking at this just mathematically, some huge swath of people will become infected. At a...

The Ebola virus as I understand it infects several mammals, including bats, monkeys and people of course. The reservoir of the virus is currently unknown I believe, though some of the hosts that people have contact with have been identified. With the current infections in major population...

So right now the mobile CNN website has 5/6 "top stories" with Ebola in the headline. We have a horrible escalation and failure of ceasefire in Gaza, Russia is possibly assisting Ukranian "rebels" shoot down airliners, and the republican house just placed a rule to effectively halt any...

Someone of unknown academic background mentioned on a news forum that if the ebola virus were to mutate so that it spread easier, like a cold or flu, that it would necessarily lose much of its ferocity, not killing in such high numbers. Is there any fact to this? And what are the odds that...

I'm wondering because drug delivery and nanotech will be my primary area of research. Right now we have a professor at my school that has made breakthroughs in drug delivery across the mucosa in the lung with nanonparticles. Also, there is hordes of research with regards to DNA/RNA/drug...

http://www.ll.mit.edu/news/DRACO.html Edit: Thanks to Ygggdrasil: Rider TH, Zook CE, Boettcher TL, Wick ST, Pancoast JS, et al. (2011) Broad-Spectrum Antiviral Therapeutics. PLoS ONE 6(7): e22572. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0022572

I would have added to this thread but it's locked (too old I guess): https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=239891 I went this year, with my daughter and her boyfriend. WOW we had such a great time! I highly recommend it! Fantastic music, cool art thingies, amazing food. It's...

About how many global casualties would there be if the H5N1 "bird" flu virus, which kills more than 80% of it's victims, were to become a level 6 pandemic? If the entire world's population were infected, I would imagine that about 5,000,000,000 people would die from the disease. Probably even...

From what I understand, the Ebola virus cannot be transmitted through the air. It is transmitted similar to HIV/AIDS, by contact with blood and bodily secretions of an infected individual. But is it possible for the Ebola virus to naturally mutate and become airborne?

the deadly Ebola virus kills 85% of those who contract it. Of the next 100000 people who contract it, what is the mean number who will die?

http://www.nature-science.info/news/07041801.htm Closely inspect? On https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=167309" for other species doesn't seem like a very good idea to me. Why?

Viruses which cause hemmoragic fevers are usually passed on to humans through animals (eg: Lassa fever, Margburg virus, Ebola, etc). But from where to the animals get the virus from? Where do the viruses originate from? Is there always some animal carrying the virus in an inactive state?

http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20031124/06

(This is partially a joke. But if any government officials are reading, consider this a freebie from the famous FZ one-man thinktank. :smile:) Ok people, take notes now. The primary threat from nuclear conflict is due to the instability of world leaders, who command these arsenals. At any...