Ebola (EBOV) and Marburg virus (MARV) are highly lethal viruses that cause severe disease in infected patients by extensively damaging the body. This includes the gastrointestinal tract. Severe ...

Filoviruses are among the globe's most lethal—indeed, so dangerous they can be handled only in high-security laboratories. Yet, more than five decades after the discovery of the Marburg virus and ...

Ebola virus and Marburg virus are both highly contagious filoviruses and are among the most lethal viruses known. Patient deaths are often a consequence of gastrointestinal damage leading to diarrhea ...

In a new study published in Nature, University of Minnesota researchers have found that the Marburg virus, one of the world's deadliest pathogens with an average 73% fatality rate, is unusually ...

Bundibugyo virus is an uncommon species of Ebola-causing virus that has been linked to only two other known outbreaks ...

The characteristics of the protein that allows Marburg virus to enter human cells so efficiently – 300 times more efficiently than Ebola – have been identified. University of Minnesota (MN, USA) ...