These defense mechanisms are linked to their immune system – on one hand the immune system of the bats makes it harder for ...

Bats harbor many viruses that can spill over into humans, including Marburg, Ebola, and famously SARS-CoV-2. But while these ...

Bats are widely recognized as the primary hosts of filoviruses, such as Ebola, yet the specific host species of ebolaviruses are not definitively known. In a study led by the University of California, ...

Around the time that bat ancestors evolved powered flight, their genomes picked up immune adaptations that can quell viral ...

(Ondrej Prosicky, Getty) Bats are widely recognized as the primary hosts of filoviruses, such as Ebola, yet the specific host species of ebolaviruses are not definitively known. In a study led by the ...

Uganda has reported an outbreak of Ebola following the death of a nurse from the virus in the capital Kampala.

The highly contagious Ebola virus has claimed more than 15,000 lives since it was first identified in central Africa in 1976.

Similar to Ebola, the Marburg virus is believed to originate in fruit bats and spreads between humans through close contact with the bodily fluids of infected individuals or contaminated surfaces ...

Marburg virus is a close cousin of Ebola, causing similar symptoms and spreading in the same way. It can cause death in up to 88% of infected people.

The Ebola virus binded poorly to straw-colored fruit bats' NPC1 receptor. "That really struck me," said Anthony, who helped discover the sixth known ebolavirus strain, Bombali virus.