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 ...

Researchers in Uganda have discovered a complex network of animals feeding on bats infected with Marburg virus, capturing startling footage of potential spillover risks for the first time.

An untreatable Ebola-like virus — which kills up to nine in 10 people it infects — is currently spreading in Africa. Marburg, one of the deadliest pathogens ever discovered, has already killed 10 ...

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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 ...

Scientists detected Marburg virus in five Egyptian fruit bats, like this one, in Sierra Leone. (Getty) Scientists have discovered Marburg virus in fruit bats in Sierra Leone. This is the first time ...

Officials confirmed Wednesday suspected German cases of the deadly Marburg virus tested negative, following fears the Ebola-like virus spread to the European country, as experts in several African ...

Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan announced on Monday that a sample from a remote part of northern Tanzania has tested positive for the highly contagious Marburg disease, a virus with a ...

The World Health Organization has confirmed the first-ever outbreak of an Ebola-like virus called Marburg disease in Equatorial Guinea, Africa. Currently, nine confirmed deaths and 16 suspected cases ...

Marburg virus is one of the deadliest pathogens ever discovered and there are no treatments or vaccines yet approved which work to reverse or prevent it. It can cause sufferers to bleed from the eyes ...

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 ...