Ebola Virus Net is the web resource for anyone interested in ebola. Ebola (Ebola hemorrhagic fever), is a severe, often fatal disease in humans and nonhuman primates such as monkeys, gorillas, and chimpanzees. Ebola is a rare and deadly disease caused by infection with a virus of the family Filoviridae, genus Ebolavirus. There are five identified Ebolavirus species, four of which have caused disease in humans. Ebola is found in several African countries. The first Ebola species was discovered in 1976 near the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Since then, outbreaks have appeared sporadically in Africa. The largest outbreak to date was the epidemic in West Africa, which occurred from December 2013, to January 2016, with 28,646 cases and 11,323 deaths. Other outbreaks in Africa began in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in May 2017 and 2018. In July 2019, the World Health Organization declared the Congo Ebola outbreak a world health emergency.

When an infection does occur in humans, the virus can be spread to others through direct contact with the blood or body fluids of a person who is sick with Ebola, or through contact with objects that have been contaminated with the blood or body fluids of an infected person. Until recent, no vaccines were effective. In December 2016, Ebola was found to be 70–100% prevented by rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine, making it the first proven vaccine against the disease. More than 100,000 people have been vaccinated against Ebola as of 2019.

The objectives of Ebola Virus Net are to be the public and professional information resource for ebola and to serve as a network in the exchange of information and news related to ebola.

• A Drug Developed to Fight Ebola Could Hold Hope for Coronavirus Treatment - TIME
  Wed, 01 Apr 2020 20:47 GMT
• Coronavirus reaches a city that has already been ravaged by war and Ebola. - Los Angeles Times
  Wed, 01 Apr 2020 22:10 GMT
• Coronavirus: What the world can learn from Ebola fight - BBC News
  Mon, 30 Mar 2020 03:02 GMT
• Ebola Should Have Immunized the United States to the Coronavirus - Foreign Affairs Magazine
  Sat, 28 Mar 2020 14:16 GMT
• Democratic Republic of Congo: Ebola Virus Disease - External Situation Report 86 - Democratic Republic of the Congo - ReliefWeb
  Wed, 01 Apr 2020 09:03 GMT
• Ebola Lessons for Fighting COVID-19 | by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala - Project Syndicate
  Wed, 01 Apr 2020 15:14 GMT
• What the Ebola outbreak could teach us about how to contain the novel coronavirus - UCLA Newsroom
  Fri, 27 Mar 2020 17:26 GMT
• NYC doctor who survived Ebola: People are dying from coronavirus 'because we weren't prepared' - Fox News
  Wed, 01 Apr 2020 16:18 GMT
• A Creator of the Ebola Vaccine Has Hope for Slowing Covid-19 - WIRED
  Tue, 31 Mar 2020 13:21 GMT
• Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo: Disease outbreak news, 26 March 2020 - Democratic Republic of the Congo - ReliefWeb
  Thu, 26 Mar 2020 15:32 GMT
• Joe Biden Points to Ebola Experience in Pitching Coronavirus Plan - The Wall Street Journal
  Mon, 30 Mar 2020 02:58 GMT
• The disturbing echoes of an Ebola outbreak in the U.S. coronavirus pandemic - The Washington Post
  Wed, 18 Mar 2020 11:49 GMT
• The official who tallied lessons from Ebola, on the coronavirus response - STAT
  Tue, 24 Mar 2020 07:00 GMT
• Statement on the meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee for Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo - World Health Organization
  Fri, 06 Mar 2020 08:00 GMT
• Republicans were more concerned about Ebola than they’ve been about coronavirus. Here’s why. - Washington Post
  Fri, 27 Mar 2020 11:17 GMT

• PRO/AH/EDR> Ebola update (15): Congo DR (NK, IT) cases, WHO, summaries, lessons
  Sun, 29 Mar 2020 15:02:26 -0400
  Ebola -- DR Congo
  A new research paper examining the 2014-15 Ebola outbreak in Africa could hold crucial insights for policymakers grappling with the novel coronavirus pandemic -- namely, the importance of public engagement and trust during health crises.
  The study (), co-authored by Darin Christensen, assistant professor of public policy in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, shows that where people lack confidence in their health providers, they are less likely to seek testing and treatment when they

• Disorder-Order Transitions in Conformational Selection of a Peptide by Ebola Virus Nucleoprotein.
  
• The Politics of Disease Epidemics: a Comparative Analysis of the SARS, Zika, and Ebola Outbreaks.