Oyewale Tomori is a virologist and fellow at the Nigerian Academy of Science. Marburg virus causes the Marburg Virus Disease, formerly known as Marburg hemorrhagic fever. The virus, which belongs to ...

Two outbreaks of the Marburg virus, a close cousin of Ebola which causes a severe and often fatal disease in humans, have been confirmed in Africa in recent months. It has sparked concern among health ...

Health officials continue to monitor an outbreak of Marburg virus — also known as "bleeding eye virus" — in Rwanda, which has sparked concerns about a potential spread outside the country. The U.S.

Two suspected cases of Marburg disease have been detected in Cameroon. This comes days after an outbreak was confirmed in neighbouring Equatorial Guinea – the country’s first such outbreak – after a ...

“Bleeding eye” virus, also known as the Marburg virus, is circulating in Rwanda. The U.S. State Department and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are warning about traveling to certain regions ...

Rwanda’s Ministry of Health has confirmed that the ongoing outbreak of Marburg hemorrhagic fever has killed 11 people, with 36 confirmed cases as of this week, according to an update from the U.S.

The World Health Organization announced that Equatorial Guinea confirmed its first outbreak of Marburg virus disease, after one sample tested positive. Nine deaths and 16 suspected cases have also ...

Amid reports of two confirmed Marburg virus outbreaks in the African countries of Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released an alert last week for U ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Ghana has reported its first outbreak of the highly infectious Marburg virus disease this week after two unrelated ...

Johannesburg — After the world was caught largely unprepared for the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists warned that lessons must be learned. Now, two more viral outbreaks are giving health officials ...