Promising results have been published from the first human trial testing an experimental vaccine targeting the deadly Marburg virus. Flagged as a potential pandemic-causing virus, this is the ...

The Marburg virus can be transmitted from human to human, but it is not as easily transmissible as some other viruses, such as the flu or measles. For all the latest headlines follow our Google ...

In the shadows of Python Cave, Uganda, a leopard leaps from a guano mound—formed by bat excrement—and sinks its teeth into a ...

People who are at risk of exposure to the virus include those who have close contact African fruit bats, infected non-human primates or people who are sick with Marburg virus disease, per the CDC.

Marburg virus disease is spreading in Rwanda and has claimed 6 lives so far. Rwanda's Minister of Health, Sabin Nsanzimana, revealed that the victims and most of the infected are healthcare ...

The West African country of Equatorial Guinea declared an outbreak of the Marburg virus disease in mid-February. There have been at least nine laboratory-confirmed cases, seven of which resulted ...

Fruit bats are known to harbor the virus. Crowe contacted the woman through her physician. From a sample of her blood, first author and graduate student Andrew Flyak and colleagues in Crowe's lab used ...

Marburg virus causes severe viral hemorrhagic fever and 24% to 88% of people who contracted the disease in different ... There can also be human-to-human transmission via direct contact ...

The first case of fatal Marburg virus disease was identified in Guinea, West Africa on 9 August 2021. Marburg is a highly infectious zoonotic haemorrhagic fever transmitted to people from fruit bats, ...

Uganda is currently experiencing an outbreak of Marburg virus, a disease that is similar to Ebola and at best kills half of all victims. U.S. ... Once in the human population, ...

The West African country of Equatorial Guinea declared an outbreak of the Marburg virus disease in mid-February. There have been at least nine laboratory-confirmed cases, seven of which resulted ...