Further plans are underway to enhance regional surveillance through additional field missions Marburg virus is a severe zoonotic disease ... avoid contact with fruit bats and their excretions, as ...

Over 50 people are dead in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo due to an unknown virus, according to the World ...

Concerned officials in the African nation have launched a probe to discover the cause of the outbreak, warning it could pose ...

A tin mine in Kigali has been identified as the source of Rwanda’s first Marburg virus outbreak, which killed 15 people and ...

Virus–host interactions are the viral and host processes that occur during viral infection, which enable both partners to respond to each other. ARF4 GTPase activity is needed for vesicular ...

In India, experts have fanned out in southern state of Kerala to collect samples of fluid from bats and fruit trees in a region where the deadly Nipah virus has killed two people and three more have ...

These are the victories that kept us going." The Marburg virus, which is transmitted to humans by fruit bats, spreads through contact with bodily fluids of an infected person. Symptoms begin with ...

A new animal-borne virus has been discovered in Alabama. But the creature that carries it can be found along parts of the Atlantic seaboard, as far north as southern Saskatchewan, Canada ...

Rwanda swiftly brought its recent outbreak of Marburg to a close at the end of December. The government’s response — which took less than three months — was seen as a blueprint on how to ...

How can Marburg virus disease infections be prevented? There is no vaccine or treatment for Marburg virus disease. If you are or have been in a region where a Marburg virus disease outbreak has ...

Symptoms of Marburg virus disease are similar to those of other viral haemorrhagic fevers, such as Ebola disease, and of infectious diseases like malaria or typhoid. Diagnosis can be difficult, ...