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

SEVEN people have tested positive and two have died from a highly contagious strain of Ebola in Uganda, as scientists race to develop a lifesaving vaccine. This marks a sharp increase from the two ...

A POTENTIAL new outbreak of Ebola has sickened at least 12 people and killed eight in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It ...

The Trump administration is preparing an executive order that would halt federal funding, at least temporarily, for a risky and controversial kind of research into viruses that makes the pathogens ...

and skin rashes. Following a brief respite of a day or two, patients experience stomach and chest pain, followed by vomiting, diarrhoea, and dizziness. Ultimately, the disease progresses to bleeding ...

“We are happy to confirm that currently, there is no reported case of Marburg Virus Disease in Kenya.” The PS added that surveillance has also been enhanced countrywide in all counties and at ...

One “confirmed case of Marburg virus marks the second outbreak” in Tanzania since 2023, the president told a press briefing broadcast from the capital Dodoma on Monday. Marburg causes a highly ...

The new EU project COMBINE ("Comparative Signature of Marburg Virus Cell Activation as a Blueprint for the Identification of Antiviral Targets against Newly Emerging Viruses") acknowledges that ...

Marburg virus outbreaks have a fatality rate of between 24% and 88%. The worst recorded outbreak was in Angola in 2004-2005, where the above picture was taken. (Image Credits: Reuters) Marburg ...

Tanzania has confirmed an outbreak of Marburg virus disease after one person tested positive in the Kagera region. President Samia Suluhu Hassan made the announcement during a press briefing ...

A deadly virus which leaves patients with bleeding eyes has swept parts of a country following an outbreak. Tanzania president Samia Suluhu Hassan declared an outbreak after one case of Marburg ...