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

Scientists worldwide say fears of the next pandemic may come true, with many new viruses mutating and spreading slowly, ...

The Marburg virus is transmitted to people from fruit bats and spreads among humans through human-to-human transmission. MVD was initially detected in 1967 after two simultaneous outbreaks in ...

British experts have spoken out amid growing concern about a new mystery virus that's killed 53 people ... to mines or caves inhabited by fruit bats. Symptoms appear abruptly and include severe ...

Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has confirmed a new outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in the East African country.

At least 50 fatalities reported after three children ate a bat and quickly died following haemorrhagic fever symptoms ...

Twenty-five other samples were negative, she said. Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact with the bodily fluids of infected ...

ARUSHA, Tanzania (AP) — The World Health Organization said Wednesday an outbreak of suspected Marburg disease has killed eight people in a remote part of northern Tanzania. “We are aware of 9 ...