Elke Muhlberger

The 9 Deadliest Viruses on Earth

October 27, 2016

Live Science Elke Muhlberger, School of Medicine Humans have been battling viruses since before our species had even evolved into its modern form… Expert quote: “It couldn’t be worse,” said Elke Muhlberger, an Ebola virus expert and associate professor of microbiology at Boston University. View full article

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Drug Might Fight Ebola-like Marburg Virus

July 23, 2015

HealthDay News Elke Muhlberger, School of Medicine, NEIDL Researchers say they’ve made preliminary progress toward developing a drug that one day may treat people infected with the deadly Marburg virus, which is similar to Ebola… View full article quoting expert Elke Muhlberger

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Ebola and Enterovirus, both spreading too close to home

November 6, 2014

WFXT Ronald Corley, School of Medicine, NEIDL Elke Muhlberger, School of Medicine, NEIDL Two viruses: one from the jungles of Africa that has infected more than 10,000 people, half of them dead and another from right here in the US infecting more than 800 and linked to the deaths of four children this past fall. […]

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The 9 Deadliest Viruses on Earth

October 23, 2014

LiveScience Elke Muhlberger, School of Medicine, NEIDL Humans have been battling viruses since before our species had even evolved into its modern form… Expert quote: “It couldn’t be worse.” View full article

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Reality Check: How People Catch Ebola, And How They Don’t

October 22, 2014

WBUR “Commonhealth” Elke Muhlberger, School of Medicine, NEIDL It’s confusing. You hear that Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan was so contagious that two Dallas nurses in protective gear caught the virus. But then you hear, in more recent days, that apparently nobody else did, including the inner circle who lived with him and cared for […]

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What We Don’t Know About Ebola

October 3, 2014

WebMD Elke Muhlberger, School of Medicine, NEIDL When Ebola arrived in the U.S. last week, it came with a steep learning curve… Expert quote: “Ebola virus causes a very severe disease in humans, and that’s also the case in monkeys and great apes. In great apes it’s a really big, big issue, because they’re very close to […]

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LETTERS: Transmission of Ebola: Two Microbiologists Weigh In

September 27, 2014

New York Times (subscription required) By John Connor, School of Medicine, NEIDL By Elke Muhlberger, School of Medicine, NEIDL Michael T. Osterholm, in “What We’re Afraid to Say About Ebola” (Op-Ed, Sept. 12), suggests that we must entertain the possibility that the Ebola virus might become transmissible through the air. That is neither the most […]

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Battling Ebola: Working with a Deadly Virus

August 7, 2014

BU Today Elke Mühlberger, School of Medicine Elke Mühlberger, associate professor of microbiology at the School of Medicine, is one of a small group of microbiologists around the world who are trained to work with Ebola and similarly deadly viruses in Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4) labs… View full Q&A with expert Elke Mühlberger

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Fears rise of Ebola spreading to U.S.

August 6, 2014

Boston Herald Elke Muhlberger, School of Medicine The deadly Ebola virus continues to tear through West Africa at an alarming rate, heightening fears among American doctors that the disease could make its way past U.S. borders… Expert quote: “It’s very simple: The more people who are infected, the more likely it is to spread to […]

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Biotech offers Ebola drug

August 6, 2014

Boston Globe (subscription required) John Connor, School of Medicine Elke Mühlberger, School of Medicine A Cambridge-based biotech company that has developed an experimental treatment for the Ebola virus is urging federal officials to consider allowing the unproven medication to be used on patients who have been infected in Africa’s deadly outbreak and brought to the […]

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