By Kayode Sanni-Arewa
Chinese scientists have created a new virus, resembling Ebola, that can kill a person in as little as three days.
Researchers at Hebei Medical University mimicked components of the deadly virus which wreaked havoc in West Africa between 2014 and 2016, in a bid to study its effects.
The team used a virus known as vesicular stomatitis and modified it to carry the glycoprotein (GP) from the Ebola virus. They published their findings in Science Direct.
They tested on a group of hamsters. They were injected with the engineered virus, and soon developed severe symptoms similar to those of human Ebola patients, including organ failure.