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Oyewale Tomori is a virologist and fellow at the Nigerian Academy of Science.In April, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned doctors about two growing outbreaks of deadly Marburg virus in Africa. World Health…

The World Health Organization (WHO) clearly indicates that “Rousettus aegyptiacus bats are ... e considered natural hosts for Marburg virus.” (Photo: Getty)getty A researcher tweeted what he called a “fun fact” about the Marburg Virus…

Topline The World Health Organization has urged African health authorities to be vigilant to the spread of the deadly Marburg virus following reports of a new outbreak in Tanzania and a slew of new cases in Equatorial Guinea, placing…

Fears were today raised over the boom in labs designed to handle the world's most dangerous pathogens in the wake of Covid.More than 100 facilities tasked with storing and experimenting on viruses like Ebola and bird flu now exist…

With the US teetering on the brink of nuclear war with Russia and gloomy warnings about climate change, many believe these events could end the human race. But the biggest threat to humanity is still zoonotic diseases — pathogens that jump…

There are growing fears that the world could be caught off guard by a currently untreatable infection that kills up to 88 percent of the people it infects. On Monday, an outbreak of Marburg disease was declared in Equatorial Guinea after…

Global health chiefs are in a race against time to develop a vaccine for a virus that is a deadlier version of Ebola and appears to be spreading in Central Africa.Panic is setting in about Marburg virus, which can initially masquerade as a…

Transmission electron micrograph of Marburg virus particles magnified approximately 100,000x. Drs. Erskine Palmer and Russell Regnery, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Equatorial Guinea has reported nine deaths and sixteen…

An extremely deadly disease is feared to be spreading in Africa after Cameroon said it had detected two suspected cases of Marburg virus.A 16-year-old boy and girl from the commune of Olamze, about two miles from the border, showed signs of…

The World Health Organization (WHO) convened an urgent meeting Tuesday amid an outbreak of one of the deadliest diseases known to man in Africa.The leading health body brought experts from around the world together to discuss how to ramp up…