Oyewale Tomori is a virologist and fellow at the Nigerian Academy of Science. Marburg virus causes the Marburg Virus Disease, formerly known as Marburg hemorrhagic fever. The virus, which belongs to ...

Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor, and holds certifications as a personal trainer and weightlifting coach. She has been writing about health for over 10 years. The World Health ...

Ghana has confirmed the first two fatal cases of Marburg virus disease, a deadly infliction in the same family as the Ebola virus. The two patients died in the same hospital in late June and their ...

Ghana is having its first ever Marburg virus outbreak with four cases being reported so far. Pictured here are Marburg virus particles (blue) attached to the surface ...

The World Health Organization announced that Equatorial Guinea confirmed its first outbreak of Marburg virus disease, after one sample tested positive. Nine deaths and 16 suspected cases have also ...

Angolan health workers treat a 22-year-old woman with a suspected case of the Marburg haemorrhagic fever in 2005. (Photo by Florence Panoussian/AFP via Getty Images) In a statement on Monday, the U.N.

DAKAR, Senegal – The World Health Organization says that Equatorial Guinea has confirmed its first-ever outbreak of Marburg disease, saying the Ebola-related virus is responsible for at least nine ...

Transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of the Marburg virus. Marburg virus, first recognized in 1967, causes a severe type of hemorrhagic fever, which affects humans, as well as non-human primates.

Amid reports of two confirmed Marburg virus outbreaks in the African countries of Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released an alert last week for U ...

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