"Ebola virus is a negative single-strand RNA virus from the family Filoviridae that causes a virulent hemorrhagic fever, termed Ebola virus disease," writes Dr. Thembi Mdluli, lead author of the ...

The Filoviridae Family First discovered in 1967, the filovirus refers to any virus that belongs to the Filoviridae family of viruses that sit within the Mononegavirales order.

Image Credit: jaddingt / Shutterstock.com. Characteristics of the virus. Ebola virus belongs to the order Mononegavirales and the family Filoviridae, which is a taxonomic group of non-segmented ...

Ebola virus disease is a serious, often fatal condition in humans and nonhuman primates. Ebola is one of several viral hemorrhagic fevers, caused by infection with a virus of the Filoviridae ...