Ebola, your days as one of the world's scariest diseases may be numbered. A team of U.S. government researchers has shown that deadly Ebola hemorrhagic fever can be vanquished in monkeys by an ...

An experimental Ebola vaccine is now being tested in people, according to scientists who say the drug has shown promising results when it was tested on monkeys. The small clinical trial is using ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 29 -- A novel two-step vaccine protects macaque monkeys against the dreaded Ebola virus, which torments its victims with severe pain, fever and bleeding before killing them ...

Ebola has infected more than 3,000 people in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria and Senegal, killing half of them, according to the World Health Organization. Senegal reported its first case ...

Ebola Cured in Monkeys—Hope for Humans? A new drug successfully wiped out the deadly virus in monkeys, possibly bringing humans a step closer to a cure, scientists say. By Amitabh Avasthi.

Both President Obama and his top infectious disease experts tried to calm Americans' fears about Ebola this week by saying the current outbreak cannot be transmitted through the air. But less than ...

A new Ebola vaccine that is designed to be inhaled works to protect monkeys from the virus's deadly effects, according to new research. The vaccine is now entering safety trials in a small number ...

Scientists are trying to develop a more practical and affordable treatment for Ebola. According to a new study, an experiment on monkeys has shown that Ebola can be cured with just a pill. First ...

Monkeys infected with the deadly Ebola virus have been successfully cured by a 10-day regimen of pills, leading scientists to hope the treatment could be adapted for use in humans. The drug ...

That might help buy time for the monkeys’ adaptive immune systems to develop T-cells and antibodies to target the Ebola virus, Marzi said. Understanding how the vaccine works could help make a ...

An experimental Ebola treatment -- produced in the leaves of specially engineered tobacco plants -- saved the lives of three monkeys who were already showing symptoms of the illness, according to ...