By Gift BritonScientists are developing a single vaccine to protect against three deadly viruses that regularly strike Africa: Ebola Zaire, Sudan Ebola virus, and Marburg virus.These viruses cause ...

Video from a national park in Uganda depicted a parade of predatory species feeding on and dispersing fruit bats that are known natural reservoirs of infectious diseases.

A dangerous mpox outbreak is unfolding in Sierra Leone. In just the first week of May, cases rose by 61%, and suspected cases ...

We describe five patients with laboratory-confirmed Marburg virus disease who were admitted to the Mondong Treatment Center in Bata, Equatorial Guinea, in March and April 2023 during the first ...

The outbreak of Marburg virus infection in Equatorial Guinea has ended, the World Health Organization's regional office for Africa said on Thursday. The agency said no new cases of Marburg ...

convened an urgent meeting on Tuesday after central African nation Equatorial Guinea confirmed its first outbreak of the highly infectious Marburg virus disease, or MVD. So far, nine deaths and ...

Amid reports of two confirmed Marburg virus outbreaks in the African countries of Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released an alert last week ...

While there has not yet been an outbreak of Marburg virus in the country, its neighbor to the north—Guinea—declared an outbreak the next year. To Cross, this represented a success of public ...

There have not been any reported cases of Marburg virus thus far in the US and the CDC said the risk of imported cases is relatively low. The virus' presence in both Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania ...

The bat-borne virus started making headlines in February, when Equatorial Guinea confirmed its first-ever Marburg outbreak to the World Health Organization — since then, the country has reported ...

suggesting that the virus is spreading undetected among people in the region. "Though we do not know yet the origin of the Marburg outbreaks in Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania, we do know that ...

Travellers to Tanzania and Equatorial Guinea have been warned to check themselves for symptoms of a deadly virus. The Marburg virus - which has a fatality rate up to 88 per cent - is a highly ...