Accidents with anthrax bacteria and a deadly virus are among the safety mishaps reported during 2024 by UTMB and the ...

Japan's long wait of 15 years for a BSL-4 lab to study deadly viruses got longer after public opposition to the setup at ...

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Marburg virus disease or MVD is a highly transmissible and infectious virus that comes from the the same family as the Ebola virus. First discovered in 1967 in parts of Marburg and Frankfurt ...

Similar to Ebola, the Marburg virus is believed to originate in fruit ... in northern Tanzania as high at national and regional levels, though it remains low globally.

Transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of the Marburg virus. Marburg virus, first recognized in ... [+] 1967, causes a severe type of hemorrhagic fever, which affects humans, as well as non-human ...

it is high at the national level, with concerns about “lack of a full information of the current outbreak”. But “global risk is currently assessed as low”. The Marburg virus disease ...

Two districts in the northwest Kagera region of Tanzania have reported outbreaks of the Marburg virus, known for its high fatality rate. Now the World Health Organisation (WHO) is investigating a ...

16 (UPI) --Tanzania pushed back against a report from the World Health Organization warning of a new Marburg virus outbreak in ... as high at the national level due to several concerning factors ...

ARUSHA, Tanzania (AP) — Tanzania’s president said Monday that one sample from a remote part of northern Tanzania tested positive for Marburg disease, a highly infectious virus which can be ...