A Ugandan scientist's trail camera footage has revealed new insights into how the deadly Marburg virus may spread through bat ...

In the shadows of Python Cave, Uganda, a leopard leaps from a guano mound—formed by bat excrement—and sinks its teeth into a ...

As summer kicks into full gear and people are spending more time outside, there's one thing on many people's minds—ticks.

A 25-year-old local scientist captured rare footage showing how one of the world’s deadliest viruses could jump from bats to humans.

Marburg virus is one of the world’s deadliest pathogens. Closely related to Ebola, it causes hemorrhagic fever with mortality ...

Marburg virus articles from across Nature Portfolio Marburg virus is an infectious agent belonging to the virus family Filoviridae, which also includes the Ebolavirus genus, and causes a rare and ...

For past Marburg outbreaks in Uganda , two spillover pathways have been identified: the first, involves humans coming into contact with a fruit bat habitat (namely caves filled with bat guano).

The filoviruses Ebola and Marburg use several different and effective mechanisms to both evade and battle the immune system. This Review explores recent findings in the filovirus–host-defence ...

While the Marburg virus does not need an intermediate host en route to infecting humans, other novel viruses could follow such a path of first passing from bat to predator where it mutates into a ...

Gilead Sciences has blamed the low rate of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections last season for ending two midstage trials of obeldesivir. | Gilead has blamed the low rate of respiratory ...

Rwanda’s Ministry of Health confirmed a case of Marburg virus infection in Kigali—the first recorded instance of its kind in ...

Marburg virus has the potential to be a serious public health threat, yet much more research is needed for us to understand the pathogenesis of the disease.