Rwanda faced a Marburg virus outbreak among health workers in the capital Kigali, challenging the nation’s health system and testing its pandemic response capabilities.

SEVEN people have tested positive and two have died from a highly contagious strain of Ebola in Uganda, as scientists race to ...

Bats serve as hosts for deadly viruses, such as rabies, Ebola, Marburg, and the novel coronavirus. However, bats that carry such lethal viruses actually do not fall ill because they have a strong ...

A POTENTIAL new outbreak of Ebola has sickened at least 12 people and killed eight in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It comes as a deadly eye-bleeding disease related to Ebola spreads through ...

where eight of the nine known Marburg patients have died and more cases may emerge. There is no vaccine or treatment for the virus, which causes bleeding from orifices like the eyes, ears and ...

Certain regions of the equatorial holiday spot are currently experiencing a deadly outbreak of Marburg Virus. Namely the Kagera region has seen 10 active cases reported as Marburg, only two have ...

A new outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus has gripped Tanzania, in the African subcontinent claiming at least eight lives. The outbreak was reported from north-western Kagera region after one ...

Marburg virus disease or MVD is a highly transmissible and infectious virus that comes from the the same family as the Ebola virus. First discovered in 1967 in parts of Marburg and Frankfurt ...

The Marburg virus outbreak in Tanzania has resulted in nine deaths out of ten reported cases. This marks the second outbreak in the country, following a previous one in 2023 that claimed six lives.

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 ...