Rwanda faced a Marburg virus outbreak among health workers in the capital Kigali, challenging the nation's health system and ...

The Tanzanian government is taking decisive action to combat the resurgence of Marburg virus disease (MVD), implementing ...

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 ...

Ebola is rare, deadly and has multiple variants. There is a vaccine for the Zaire type. Now, trials for another strain are ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), in collaboration with relevant Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) through the National Emerging Viral Hemorrhagic Diseases (EVHD ...

Following the confirmation of an outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease in Uganda, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and ...

Marburg virus belongs to the genus Marburgvirus in the family Filoviridae and causes a severe hemorrhagic fever, known as Marburg hemorrhagic fever (MHF), in both humans and nonhuman primates.

The virus that causes eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, has evolved to infect mosquitoes. To be able to spread between ...

Rwanda is studying the survivors of its recent Marburg outbreak to better understand how they survived. Rwanda swiftly ...

Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that ... Dec. 12, 2024 — Few genomes have been sequenced from ...

“For example, if a human gets infected with a bird flu and also carries a human influenza A virus, these two viruses can exchange genetic material. This is known as genetic shift,” Michael ...

A lethal new virus which kills humans has been developed by scientists as part of a US government project. The genetically modified variant of smallpox is so dangerous that, as yet, no vaccination ...