US warns nationals to reconsider travel to Marburg-hit Rwanda
The United States on Monday warned its citizens that they should reconsider traveling to Rwanda, citing an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus.
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Suspected Marburg cases in Germany were false alarms: Officials
Two people recently returned to Germany from Rwanda who feared they had contracted the deadly Marburg virus have tested negative, health officials in Hamburg said Thursday.
Oct 3, 2024
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Rwanda's Marburg fever deaths rise to 11 as its source is being investigated
Marburg hemorrhagic fever has killed 11 people in Rwanda, health authorities said Thursday, as the East African country searches for the source of an outbreak first traced among patients in health facilities.
Oct 3, 2024
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Rwanda reports 8 deaths linked to Ebola-like Marburg virus days after it declared an outbreak
Rwanda says eight people have died so far from the Ebola-like and highly contagious Marburg virus, just days after the country declared an outbreak of the deadly hemorrhagic fever that has no authorized vaccine or treatment.
Sep 30, 2024
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Six dead from Marburg viral disease in Rwanda
Six people have been killed in Rwanda in an outbreak of Marburg virus, a highly infectious hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola, the country's health ministry said on Saturday.
Sep 28, 2024
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Study shows experts rate influenza as the number one pathogen of concern of pandemic potential
New research presented at the ESCMID Global Congress (formerly ECCMID) in Barcelona, Spain (27–30 April) shows that in a VACCELERATE Consortium survey study in which infectious diseases experts were asked to rank pathogens ...
Apr 20, 2024
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What is Disease X? How scientists are preparing for the next pandemic
The term "Disease X" was coined years ago as a way of getting scientists to work on medical countermeasures for unknown infectious threats—novel coronaviruses like the one that causes COVID-19, for example—instead of just ...
Jan 16, 2024
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Scientists discover new method Ebola virus uses to infect cells
Understanding how viruses travel once inside the human body is critical to develop effective drugs and therapies that can stop viruses in their tracks. Scientists at Texas Biomedical Research Institute (Texas Biomed) recently ...
Dec 18, 2023
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Study: Animal-to-human diseases could kill 12 times as much by 2050
Certain diseases transmitted from animals to humans could kill 12 times as many people in 2050 than they did in 2020, researchers have claimed.
Nov 4, 2023
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A new look inside Ebola's 'viral factories'
New research in the journal Nature Communications gives scientists an important window into how Ebola virus replicates inside host cells. The study, led by scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI), reveals the ...
Aug 9, 2023
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