Steven Hatfill, a senior advisor for the Department of Health and Human Services was fired over the weekend, with health ...

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Rhesus monkeys were completely protected from the deadly Ebola virus when treated three days after infection with a compound that blocks the virus's ability to replicate. These encouraging preclinical ...

Thirty years ago, scientists working at a lab facility in Reston, Virginia, scrambled to contain a deadly virus: Ebola. Monkeys that had been shipped to the lab from the Philippines were testing ...

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Yersinia pestis, the notorious agent behind bubonic and pneumonic plague, has shaped the course of human history with recurrent epidemics and catastrophic ...