Rwanda says eight people have died so far from the Ebola-like and highly contagious Marburg virus, just days after the ...

The deadly Marburg virus is believed to originate in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact.

For the first time in Rwanda’s history, its health ministry is dealing with an outbreak of Marburg virus disease, a rare but ...

The Ebola-related Marburg virus kills around half of those infected but has been fatal in up to 90 per cent of cases.

The Ministry of Health has launched a comprehensive Ebola preventive vaccination campaign to safeguard vulnerable populations against the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) after securing vaccines for ...

This week, the government launched an Ebola preventive vaccination campaign to safeguard vulnerable populations against the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). The ministry’s Director of Curative ...

UNMC's first Ebola patient ... in West Africa and more than 11,000 people died with the virus, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While working to provide care ...

And the U.S. government’s Centers for Disease Control warned recently that ... As Professor Peter Piot, who first identified the Ebola virus in 1976, said in a recent interview with Der Spiegel ...

The Ebola virus disease outbreak now ravaging parts of West Africa is the largest on record. In fact, West Africa has seen more cases of the disease in 2014 than have been seen in all other ...

If a vaccine 70% effective against disease were administered to 40% of ... tirelessly in accelerating the development of an Ebola virus vaccine. In under five months, phase I trials in humans ...

Early study results suggest 2 Ebola treatments are saving lives The preliminary findings prompted an early halt to a major study on the drugs and a decision to prioritize their use in Congo, where ...

Infectious disease scientist and Chief ... on a Lagos street during an outbreak of Ebola in West Africa in 2014 [File: Sunday Alamba/AP] The mpox virus and the way it operated was largely unknown ...