A comprehensive review of Irish laboratory guidelines for viral haemorrhagic fevers revealed significant operational gaps in out-of-hours testing, routine sample analysis, and diagnostic turnaround ...

A new narrative review finds no licensed treatment or vaccine exists for Marburg virus disease as investigational antibodies, ...

Sequencing of Marburg virus collected during Ethiopia’s first outbreak suggests that the pathogen is lurking in East and ...

Drawing on nearly a decade of surveillance, the researchers document the burden of Lassa fever in the region and explain how sustainable diagnostic structures can support prevention and help reduce ...

France has reported the first ⁠known ⁠human case of Shamonda virus in ⁠a patient who died, raising questions about the risks posed by ​a livestock virus that has reached Europe this year decades after ...

You have probably seen headlines about rare, deadly viruses and assumed they were a lab problem. Most of the time, they are not. The real risk often starts in a quiet corner of a national park almost ...

DAR ES SALAAM, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Tanzania has discovered an estimated 223 billion cubic feet of ‌natural gas in the Mnazi Bay area in the south of the country, its energy minister announced on ...

During Epiweek 9, 17 countries in the WHO African region (WHO AFR) contributed virological data for analysis - Algeria, Burkina Faso, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, ...

WHO Africa / Publications / Respiratory virus surveillance in the WHO African Region Epidemiological Week 4, 20 - 26 January 2025 ...

WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) - The Bundibugyo virus disease (BVD) outbreak has spread to more areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and other parts of Africa since the previous update on October ...

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