Preparing for the next Ebola epidemic Michael Gross  Current Biology  Volume 28, Issue 2, Pages R51-R54 (January 2018) DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.011 Copyright © 2018 Terms and Conditions

Fearful symmetry: Colourised scanning electron micrograph of filamentous Ebola virus particles (blue) budding from a chronically infected VERO E6 cell (yellow-green). Image captured and colour-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility in Ft. Detrick, Maryland. (Credit: NIAID.) Current Biology 2018 28, R51-R54DOI: (10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.011) Copyright © 2018 Terms and Conditions

Personal protection: A medical doctor puts on his personal protective equipment before heading to the red zone of an Ebola treatment unit in Sinje, Grand Cape Mount, Liberia. (Photo: UNMEER/Martine Perret.) Current Biology 2018 28, R51-R54DOI: (10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.011) Copyright © 2018 Terms and Conditions

Flying fearless: Among several hypotheses aiming to explain why fruit bats can carry Ebola virus and other zoonoses without getting ill is one that likens the heightened metabolic state required for flying to that of fever in humans. (Photo: shellac/Flickr.com.) Current Biology 2018 28, R51-R54DOI: (10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.011) Copyright © 2018 Terms and Conditions