NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia on Monday declared the end of its first outbreak of Marburg virus after completing the mandatory 42 days with no new confirmed cases. A total of 14 cases, including nine ...

U of A researcher Kristian Forbes has joined the ZOOSURY project with the University of Helsinki to grow a better understanding of how bats transmit diseases to humans in Africa.

Ethiopia declared the end of an outbreak of Marburg, a virus in the same family as Ebola, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday. It was the first recorded outbreak of the virus in ...

Closely related to Ebola, the Marburg virus causes severe hemorrhagic fever with a high fatality rate. With no widely approved cure and limited treatment options, outbreaks demand rapid containment.

Addis Ababa, 20 February 2026 —The Principal Advisor for Programmes Management at the Africa Centres for Disease Control and ...

Humans have always battled microbes. But if the assaults seem to be coming more frequently and ferociously, that's because they are ...