In the shadows of Python Cave, Uganda, a leopard leaps from a guano mound—formed by bat excrement—and sinks its teeth into a ...

The vaccines are intended to be developed for use against Marburg virus and Sudan ebolavirus, two hemorrhagic fevers in the same family as the Ebola virus ...

A 25-year-old local scientist captured rare footage showing how one of the world’s deadliest viruses could jump from bats to humans.

For past Marburg outbreaks in Uganda , two spillover pathways have been identified: the first, involves humans coming into contact with a fruit bat habitat (namely caves filled with bat guano).

Donald Trump again has threatened a tariff on imported drugs, but has given the drug makers a year or so "to get their act ...

Deadly viruses throughout history From the Ebola to COVID-19, diseases caused by viruses have killed humans throughout history. Viruses are much older than human beings, possibly even older than ...

The Filoviridae, which consist of Ebola and Marburg viruses, are distinctive in their ability to cause acute febrile diseases with high mortality rates in people and in non-human primates ...

While the Marburg virus does not need an intermediate host en route to infecting humans, other novel viruses could follow such a path of first passing from bat to predator where it mutates into a ...

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 ...

New viruses that are genetically similar to known fatal viruses have been discovered near food sources in a concerning new ...