How Ebola Virus Avoids The Immune System

Friday, January 30, 2009 - 09:36 in Biology & Nature

Researchers have likely found one reason why the Ebola virus is such a powerful, deadly, and effective virus. Using a cell culture model for Ebola virus infection, they have discovered that the virus disables a cellular protein called tetherin that normally can block the spread of virus from cell to cell.

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