SFBR receives contract to test vaccines for Ebola, Marburg viruses

by Paul Tinder on January 7, 2010

Marburg

Marburg

SAN ANTONIO — The Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research announced Jan. 6 that it has received a contract from the Dutch pharmaceutical firm Crucell to test a vaccine against Ebola and Marburg viruses, which cause hemorrhagic fevers.

Rare Ebola-like virus poses new threat to U.S. troops in Afghanistan

by Tina Redlup on November 11, 2009

Ebola

Ebola

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — U.S. military officials sent a medical team to a remote outpost in southern Afghanistan this week to take blood samples from members of an Army unit after a soldier in the unit died from an Ebola-like virus.