Ebola: What You Need to Know

Weeks ahead remain fraught with uncertainty as pathogen jumps borders and appears in Africa’s largest city

Material from deadly pathogens triggers alerts directly, and could speed detection

An RNA-based treatment may stop the Ebola virus in its tracks

A combination treatment of antibodies and virus-fighting proteins prevented death from the Ebola-Zaire strain in some primates, even when administered three days after infection

David Quammen talks about his latest book, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic. From his Web site: "The next big and murderous human pandemic, the one that kills us in millions, will be caused by a new disease--new to humans, anyway. The bug that's responsible will be strange, unfamiliar, but it won't come from outer space. Odds are that the killer pathogen--most likely a virus--will spill over into humans from a nonhuman animal"

A rush of new research has found evidence that some RNA viruses made their way into vertebrate genomes millions of years ago

Scientists report that domestic pigs harbor Reston ebolavirus, the only Ebola species that has not caused disease in humans

Finding could lead to new therapies to thwart spread of this contagious, and mostly fatal disease

Thousands of gorillas in the Republic of Congo fall victim to the nastiest strain of the hemorrhagic virus