The first week was the worst. “It was very, very, very deadly because the people had an advanced stage of disease, and the ...

Marburg is transmitted to humans from fruit bats and belongs to the same family of viruses as Ebola. With a fatality rate of up to 88 percent, Marburg's highly infectious hemorrhagic fever is often ...

A WHO report last week, however, did not rule out a risk of regional and international transmission in the near future of the Ebola virus following a new epidemic of this hemorrhagic fever in the ...

from a symptomatic individual or corpse of a person who had Ebola virus disease. Symptoms begin with fever, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. A minority of cases have hemorrhagic complications.

Researchers have developed an optical biosensor that detects mpox in 20 minutes, drastically reducing diagnosis time compared ...

Rwanda’s last Marburg virus patient was discharged from the hospital on November 8, starting a 42-day countdown until the ...

The Marburg virus disease outbreak in Rwanda is showing signs of containment since the first case was reported, said a senior official. Rwandan Minister of Health Sabin Nsanzimana made the remarks ...

As the U.N.'s climate summit, COP29, gets underway in Azerbaijan this week, the effect of climate change on human health is ...