/PRNewswire/ The Coronavirus Global Market has been growing in the past few years and is anticipated to continue to grow in the next several years. In fact,.
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IMAGE: UIC s Lijun Rong is part of a team of UIC researchers who have identified a previously unknown site on filoviruses a type of virus, like Ebola, that causes hemorrhagic. view more
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Ebola and Marburg are among the most deadly viruses, with mortality rates from these infections ranging from 25% to 90%. While no drugs currently are available on the market to prevent infection from these viruses they belong to a category of viruses called filoviruses, which are known to cause hemorrhagic fever researchers have identified a few small drug molecules that can block filoviruses from infecting cells by occupying a single site on a glycoprotein in the virus.