Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Marburg virus is named after the German city where it was first identified in 1967, in a laboratory where employees had been ...

The Marburg virus has a ‘filamentous’ structure and is transmitted by fruit bats [Shutterstock] Ethiopia has confirmed its first outbreak of Marburg virus disease, after nine cases were reported in ...

Guinea today declared the end of the Marburg virus disease outbreak having recorded no new cases over the past 42 days—two incubation periods, or the time between infection and the onset of symptoms.

Ethiopia announced three deaths on Monday due to the Marburg Virus, which was discovered in a neighbouring territory of South Sudan. Health Minister Mekdes Daba said Ethiopia's government, which ...

By Dawit Endeshaw ADDIS ABABA, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Ethiopia has declared the end of an outbreak of Marburg virus, the World Health Organization said on Monday, after the disease killed at least nine ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia(AP) — Ethiopia on Monday confirmed three deaths from the Marburg hemorrhagic virus that has been detected in an area neighboring South Sudan. Health Minister Mekdes Daba said ...

Across Africa, One Health is endorsed at the top but often breaks down where outbreaks start, writes Albert Ansah. Despite ...

Rwanda has begun the world's first clinical trial for a treatment of the Ebola-like Marburg virus, which has killed more than a dozen people in the country, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.