Marburg virus disease or MVD is a highly transmissible ... To reduce the risk of infection, the public is advised to: Avoid contact with fruit bats and their habitats Practice strict hygiene ...

Marburg virus, first recognized in ... Because of the way it spreads, it doesn't pose the same risk of infection as a disease like COVID-19. Cases and outbreaks have largely been recorded ...

But though Marburg virus infection had never previously been diagnosed in Rwanda, the 2024 outbreak was not the country’s first engagement with a filovirus. In the darkest hour of the West ...

Marburg virus infection spreads through direct contact with infected bodily fluids such as blood, saliva, and mucus. Protective measures are important for those in close contact with patients.

Kenya has confirmed 41 cases of monkey pox (mpox) across 12 counties, with one fatality reported since the outbreak began in ...

Experts say the Marburg virus has no evolutionary or scientific link proteins in snake venoms and is unlikely to spread globally. Marburg virus disease, a severe hemorrhagic fever that has a high ...

BUKOBA: IN efforts to control the spread of Marburg Virus Disease (MVD), radio presenters from 14 stations based in the Lake Zone Regions namely Mwanza, Kigoma, Shinyanga, Kagera, Simiyu and Mara have ...

leading the group Nanoscale Infection Biology at HZI. Marburg virus, like Ebola virus, a member of the filovirus family, is a highly infectious and lethal pathogen with substantial epidemic potential.

THE East African Community (EAC) has expressed its unwavering solidarity with Tanzania and other key stakeholders following ...