Ebola

The UN's health agency on Thursday declared an end to a nearly four-month epidemic of Marburg virus in Equatorial Guinea, saying the disease, a cousin of Ebola, had caused 35 confirmed or suspected deaths.…

Viruses like influenza A and Ebola invade human cells in a number of steps. In an interdisciplinary approach, research teams from Heidelberg University and Heidelberg University Hospital investigated the final stages of viral penetration…

For the first time, the world is seeing two simultaneous outbreaks of the Marburg virus – one in Equatorial Guinea, the other in Tanzania. The Marburg virus is just as deadly as Ebola, to which it is closely…

Seven people have been killed in an outbreak of Marburg virus in Equatorial Guinea, with a further 20 deaths “probably" due to the hemorrhagic fever, the World Health Organization had said on Thursday. Authorities in Tanzania’s northwestern…

Fears were today raised over the boom in labs designed to handle the world's most dangerous pathogens in the wake of Covid.More than 100 facilities tasked with storing and experimenting on viruses like Ebola and bird flu now exist…

With the US teetering on the brink of nuclear war with Russia and gloomy warnings about climate change, many believe these events could end the human race. But the biggest threat to humanity is still zoonotic diseases — pathogens that jump…

There are growing fears that the world could be caught off guard by a currently untreatable infection that kills up to 88 percent of the people it infects. On Monday, an outbreak of Marburg disease was declared in Equatorial Guinea after…

CNN  —  Cameroonian authorities detected two suspected cases of Marburg disease on Monday in Olamze, a commune on the border with Equatorial Guinea, the public health delegate…

Global health chiefs are in a race against time to develop a vaccine for a virus that is a deadlier version of Ebola and appears to be spreading in Central Africa.Panic is setting in about Marburg virus, which can initially masquerade as a…

An extremely deadly disease is feared to be spreading in Africa after Cameroon said it had detected two suspected cases of Marburg virus.A 16-year-old boy and girl from the commune of Olamze, about two miles from the border, showed signs of…