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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Outbreaks of highly pathogenic H7N6 avian flu that began at the end of May 2023 have led to the loss of about a quarter of South Africa's poultry ... H7 strain has been confirmed); Free State ...

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 ...

A mysterious disease that killed five people in Tanzania ... as Marburg hemorrhagic fever, a cousin of Ebola, the health ministry said on Tuesday. "Our public health laboratory results have confirmed ...

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 ...