Marburg Virus Disease is a highly contagious viral ... pointing out the ongoing risk of spillover events from animals to humans.

Rwanda has declared a public outbreak of the Marburg virus, confirming nearly ... Once a zoological spillover has occurred, ...

In a study published in the journal, Cell, Jing Chen, PhD, and colleagues at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Wuhan, China, ...

Three bugs US scientists highlighted are Ebola and Marburg ... it is highly likely that the virus jumped from bats to cat-like civets before infecting humans. A spillover could happen again.

Looking at examples like Ebola or Marburg hemorrhagic fevers, we now have good evidence that these viruses are normally in bat populations. We're getting a spillover of the virus from the bat ...

The Marburg virus is a member of the filoviridae (filoviruses) family. The disease has an incubation period of 2 to 21 days, according to WHO. It then manifests its symptoms suddenly.

A tin mine in Kigali has been identified as the source of Rwanda’s first Marburg virus outbreak ... the bat-filled tunnel to prevent further “spillover” events. Scientists note that human ...

Kenya has heightened its preparedness for a potential Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) outbreak following the confirmation of a case in Tanzania's Kagera region on Sunday, January 20. The Ministry of ...

From monkeypox in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to the most recent outbreak of the Marburg virus in Rwanda, health authorities are facing significant challenges in managing these deadly diseases.

KAMPALA, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- Uganda has intensified border surveillance with neighboring Tanzania following a suspected Marburg virus disease (MVD) outbreak that has claimed eight lives ...