Conclusion Marburg virus disease remains a significant global health threat due to its high fatality rate, zoonotic origin, and potential for human-to-human transmission.

How does Marburg virus spread between species? Young Ugandan scientist's photos give important clues by Alexander Richard Braczkowski, The Conversation edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Andrew Zinin ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The Egyptian fruit bat is the natural host of the highly pathogenic Marburg virus, which causes severe hemorrhagic fever in humans, leading to death in 30-90 % of infected individuals.

A WHO alert team removes a body in an Angolan village during a Marburg virus outbreak 20 years ago. Swift coordination between the WHO and the CDC has helped contain biological threats globally.

Tanzania, meanwhile, referenced its ability to control a prior Marburg outbreak in Kagera in 2023, when there were nine cases, with six resulting in deaths.

The government, through the Ministry of Health, has outlined measures to curb the spread of the Marburg virus after the cases was reported in the neighboring country, Tanzania. During a press ...

On Jan. 20, Tanzania declared an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus disease in Biharamulo District in the northwestern part of the country’s Kagera Region. The announcement comes after public ...

A unified response to the global threat posed by a Marburg virus disease outbreak in Rwanda offers reason for hope — and lessons about safeguarding health equity in a time of ascendant isolationism.