virus
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This species of Ebola, the Bundibugyo virus, is harder to detect, and there is no vaccine for it.
From Slate • Jun. 9, 2026
The outbreak was declared on May 15 in northeastern DR Congo, but the rare Bundibugyo species of the Ebola virus is believed to have spread for some time beforehand.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
However, he stressed that he did not expect Ebola to spread worldwide because the virus is not airborne, unlike coronavirus.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
A rare strain of Ebola has reached territory controlled by Islamic State militants in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a place too dangerous for health workers fighting to stop the deadly virus.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
The close similarity of the measles virus to the rinderpest virus suggests that the latter transferred from cattle to humans and then evolved into the measles virus by changing its properties to adapt to us.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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