The Ad5-EBOV vaccine developed in China relies on the recombinant replication-defective human adenovirus type-5 vector to induce immune responses and provide protection against the Ebola virus.

Ebola virus, being highly pathogenic for humans and non-human primates and the subject of former weapons programmes, is now one of the most feared pathogens worldwide. In addition, the lack of pre ...

Vector is one of the only two places in the ... after accidentally sticking herself with a needle containing the Ebola virus in 2004, The New York Times reported at the time.

to humans is called a zoonotic virus. Some viruses need an intermediate organism, called a vector, to be transmitted from one type of host to another. Arthropods, such as mosquitoes and ticks ...

More than 40 years after it was identified, the Ebola virus continues to defy drugs, treatment plans—and experts’ best efforts to solve its mysteries. Ebola vaccine has to be kept cold.