Customs officials believe the monkeys were "bushmeat" — a category of food that includes wild animals like bats and primates. Bushmeat can carry diseases like Ebola. The passenger had originally ...

He said that if the vaccine was so effective in monkeys given high doses of virus, it should be effective in an outbreak scenario in which people typically get lower doses. The Ebola virus ...

It is related to Ebola, which infected an estimated 28,000 ... It can also infect non-human primates like apes and monkeys. In fact, the Marburg virus is named for a town in Germany where monkeys ...