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Tanzania is witnessing another outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus and has confirmed at least nine deaths as of Friday. Deadly Marburg Virus Outbreak Claims 8 Lives In Tanzania; Africa CDC ...
There is no specific cure for hantavirus, so early medical care is imperative. Marburg virus is similar to Ebola and causes Marburg Virus Disease, a severe hemorrhagic fever. It spreads through ...
Bird flu in America. Marburg virus in Africa. Warnings about “Disease X.” These headlines are unsettling, but, for those of us who study infectious diseases, they have become the new normal.
Residents and health officials are concerned with the detection, especially as the program that found the virus early is at risk of being cut. Three positive samples of mpox, previously known as ...
Arusha, a vibrant city nestled at the foot of Mount Meru in Tanzania, is set to host the Second UN Tourism Regional Forum on Gastronomy Tourism for Africa from Wednesday 23 to Friday 25 April 2025 ...
The United Nations Children’s Emmergency Fund (UNICEF) has confirmed a resurgence of polio in Kano State and eight other states currently battling a fresh outbreak of the disease. UNICEF’s ...
The closure of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s Division of Viral Hepatitis in the wake of the administration’s restructuring of the Department of Health and Human ...
Marburg virus belongs to the genus Marburgvirus in the family Filoviridae and causes a severe hemorrhagic fever, known as Marburg hemorrhagic fever (MHF), in both humans and nonhuman primates.
She created a comic in 1999 entitled “The future as I see it” that foresaw a virus wreaking havoc upon the world in 2020, according to Japan Today. “Around 2020, an unknown virus will appear ...