On Aug. 6, the Ministry of Health in Guinea notified the World Health Organization of its first-ever confirmed case of the deadly Marburg virus, according to a WHO news release. The infected person ...

Guinea today declared the end of the Marburg virus disease outbreak having recorded no new cases over the past 42 days—two incubation periods, or the time between infection and the onset of symptoms.

When a man in Temessadou M’Boket – a village in the densely forested southern Guinea region – died in early August 2021 after suffering fever, headache and haemorrhage, a medical team was quickly ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The Oxford Vaccine Group recruited 46 patients aged 18 to 55 years to participate in the trial. There are ...

The Marburg Virus, which can have an 88 percent fatality rate, has now killed 11 people in Rwanda as the East African country continues to investigate the source of the outbreak. Currently, there are ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday reported a case of Marburg virus disease in Guinea, West Africa Guinea Health officials said this is the first time Marburg, a highly infectious disease ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — 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 ...

Researchers are in a race against time to deploy vaccines and treatments against a deadly virus that has exploded in Rwanda. As of 30 September, the central African country had recorded 27 cases and 9 ...

Marburg Virus has no authorised vaccine or treatment. [File, Standard] Equatorial Guinea has confirmed another eight cases of the "highly virulent" Marburg virus, a deadly hemorrhagic fever with no ...