Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact with the bodily fluids of infected individuals. AFP via Getty Images This is the second ... care workers who ...

IN SHORT: A video that has been making the rounds since December 2024 claims Uganda’s health minister has announced an outbreak of the Marburg virus. But the video is ... workers who treated the ...

Ebola is rare, deadly and has multiple variations. There is a vaccine for the Zaire type, now trials for another are underway ...

A nurse in Uganda has died of Ebola in the first recorded fatality since the country’s last outbreak of the disease ended in ...

"Marburg is not easily transmissible. In most instances, it requires contact with the body fluids of a sick patient presenting with symptoms or with surfaces contaminated with these fluids. "However, ...

Organizations that provide vital care for desperate and vulnerable people around the world have been forced to halt ...

Ugandan authorities on Monday began a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola that has killed one ...

On Friday morning, the staffers at a half dozen U.S.-funded medical facilities in Sudan who care for severely malnourished children had a choice to make: Defy President Donald Trump’s order to ...

A technical team from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation (CEPI) is in Rwanda as part of the preparations for a study on Marburg virus immunity among recovered patients.Led by Rwanda ...

A suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus in Tanzania has killed at least ... Samples from two patients have been collected and tested for confirmation of the outbreak at Tanzania’s national ...

Tanzania is right now experiencing a Marburg outbreak, with the death of eight of the nine confirmed patients. The only way to safeguard Americans against the virus, which triggers bleeding from ...