The rapid identification of respiratory virus outbreaks is needed to enable rational and effective public health interventions. We developed new quantitative approaches for simultaneous ...

Scientists have identified dozens of human proteins that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, depends on to replicate ...

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

A low-cost genome sequencing technique that was used by thousands of laboratories globally to spot COVID-19 variants of concern will now be extended to cover all pathogens, known or unknown, in an ...

Rwanda has declared an end to the country's Marburg virus outbreak following the recovery of the last patient 42 days ago, Health Minister Sabin Nsanzimana told a news conference on Friday.

Health Deadly outbreak of Marburg, or ‘bleeding eye virus,’ leads to travel advisory Get the latest update on the Ebola-like virus, which has infected dozens and killed 15 in Rwanda ...

Health officials in Rwanda declared a Marburg virus outbreak in late September. As of late October, there have been 66 confirmed cases and 15 deaths, with nearly 80% of the cases reported among ...

In an earlier meeting, on Oct. 20, Nsanzimana had revealed that it's very likely the first human Marburg virus disease case in the current outbreak was in a 27-year-old man who had been exposed to ...

Rwanda is facing its first ever Marburg virus outbreak. Beginning in late September, 62 cases and 15 deaths had been reported by 17 October, mostly among healthcare workers in Kigali, the capital ...

Initial findings of genomic analysis indicates that the Marburg virus, which caused an outbreak in Rwanda, has "a single zoonotic origin," meaning it jumped from an animal to a human only once and ...

A deadly, Ebola-like virus called Marburg is currently causing an outbreak in Rwanda. The country declared an outbreak of Marburg virus disease on Sept. 27 and has reported 58 confirmed cases and ...

Marburg virus disease has killed 11 people and sickened 25 others in Rwanda, which declared an outbreak on Sept. 27. Similar to Ebola, the rare but very severe illness can be fatal in up to 88% of ...