the emergency response can be rapidly accelerated so that we can save lives and stop the virus as soon as possible,” said WHO Regional Director for Africa Matshidiso Moeti. “Marburg is highly ...

Tanzania’s health Minister Ummy Mwalimu has confirmed a mysterious disease that has killed five people to be the Marburg virus. "Our public health laboratory results have confirmed that this ...

First Marburg Virus Disease Death in West Africa First death due to ... In one of the worst ever outbreaks of the Ebola virus, Guinea confirmed on Tuesday 74 people diagnosed with the deadly ...

Many viral infections that plague humans originate from bats, yet intriguingly bats suffer no ill effects from the myriad of viruses that inhabit their bodies, a phenomenon scientists are researching ...

This is the fourth Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala. The most deadly was in 2018, with 18 laboratory-confirmed cases and five suspected cases, 17 of whom died. Nipah virus is an RNA virus of the ...

South Africa is dealing with a number of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5 and H7 outbreaks, with more than 50 cases confirmed in ... of the avian influenza virus mutating and becoming ...

Earlier, testing in DRC confirmed ... outbreak in DRC is a distinct and independent event, with no relationship to the outbreak in west Africa. As the Gabon laboratory report clearly stated ...

KUWAIT CITY, July 19: The Ministry of Health is closely following the latest developments in diseases and epidemics locally and globally, especially after the outbreak of the “Marburg” virus in Ghana ...

Case counts reported by most African countries suggest the virus ... countries in Africa to estimate the number of hidden infections. Data on cumulative number of cases and daily confirmed cases ...