Manitoba announced five more deaths due to COVID-19 on Sunday, including three linked to outbreaks at personal care homes. That brings the total number of…
Researchers identify a pathway used by filoviruses to enter cells
It was once thought that Ebola and related filoviruses were more or less contained to Central Africa. After a West African outbreak and the discovery of Reston ebolavirus in the Philippines, cuevavirus in Spain and various bat filoviruses in China, researchers now understand that this viral family causing hemorrhagic fevers with up to 90% case fatality rates has been widespread around the world for millions of years.
Our defenses against it are more embryonic, and though we have a vaccine against one species of Ebola and some therapeutic antibodies on the horizon, both have production or distribution issues. What doctors have been hoping for is a regular drug that can treat Ebola as soon as it rears its terrifying head. A study published today in the journal
Canada s chief public health officer says the recent COVID-19 outbreak in eastern Newfoundland shows that sudden and rapid spread of the virus can happen in places that have grown used to having few cases.