The WHO and the CDC coordinated well when faced with viral outbreaks. This is no time to demolish a well-oiled machine.

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Once a person becomes infected, they can transmit the virus to others via their own bodily fluids. It can also infect non-human primates like apes and monkeys. In fact, the Marburg virus is named ...

Rwanda faced a Marburg virus outbreak among health workers in the capital Kigali, challenging the nation's health system and ...

The president of Tanzania has confirmed a case of the Marburg virus in the country ... strain and infection management. The virus is transmitted to people from fruit bats. It spreads among ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned of a suspected new outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg virus in north-west Tanzania, saying that at least eight people have already been killed by the ...

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 ...

"We do not recommend travel or trade restrictions with Tanzania at this time." Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact with the ...

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 ...

Since the country officially announced the outbreak last week, ten people have tested positive for Marburg virus, a highly infectious ... and it causes an illness like Ebola, with fever, headache ...

WHO said it received reports on Jan. 10 and Jan. 11 of nine people ... diseases like Marburg that cannot be tested in traditional ways. Thousands of doses of investigational Marburg virus vaccine ...

Ranging from a Level 1 to a Level 4, these notices are used to inform people ... image of the Marburg virus virion. The CDC says that the symptoms of the Marburg virus “can be (like) other ...