Wild Africa, a conservation nonprofit, has called for urgent and consistent action to reduce the risk of future pandemics by ...

The West African country of Equatorial Guinea declared an outbreak of the Marburg virus disease in mid-February. There have been at least nine laboratory-confirmed cases, seven of which resulted ...

After two deadly outbreaks of the rare Marburg virus disease in Africa, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning US doctors to be on the lookout for patients exhibiting symptoms ...

Marburg virus had killed 12 people in Rwanda as of early October, touching off the nation’s first confirmed outbreak of the highly virulent disease that can have a fatality rate of close to 90%.

Marburg virus cases reported in second African country : Goats and Soda The first outbreak this year was in Equatorial Guinea, which has seen 20 deaths already. Now there are cases reported in ...

Africa CDC warns of Marburg virus after deadly Africa outbreak The CDC is sending personnel to assist with the outbreak of the Marburg virus in Guinea and Tanzania. By Sarah Rumpf-Whitten Fox News.

Marburg killed 90% of 252 infected people in a 2004 outbreak in Angola. Last year, there were two reported Marburg deaths in Ghana. The rare virus was first identified in 1967 after it caused ...

A second country in Africa has recently reported cases of Marburg, an infectious disease that has high fatality rates and, according to the World Health Organization, epidemic potential.

The highly infectious Marburg virus has been reported in the West African country of Ghana this week, according to the World Health Organization. Subscribe for unlimited access to The Post You can ...

Marburg is a virus that can infect humans who come into contact with its animal host, a type of bats native to Africa. It can then be transmitted from an infected person to others through contact ...

A Marburg outbreak can be declared over if there are no new cases reported for a period of at least 21 days — the incubation period of the virus, according to Africa CDC Director General Dr ...

The Marburg virus, while rare, ... (then called Yugoslavia) in 1967 when laboratory workers handling African green monkeys imported from Uganda contracted the disease.