What is the Marburg virus and where did it come from? Marburg virus causes the Marburg Virus Disease (MVD), formerly known as Marburg haemorrhagic fever. The virus, which belongs to the same family as ...

A medical team from Kozhikode Medical College in the southern Indian state of Kerala, India, carries areca nut and guava fruit samples to conduct tests for the Nipah virus on Wednesday. (Reuters) The ...

A new strain of monkeypox virus is "the most dangerous" yet and could be a global threat, experts say. The new clade Ib virus emerged in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and spread to Rwanda's ...

Health officials in India are racing Thursday to contain an outbreak of the Nipah virus, which has already killed two and carries a fatality rate the World Health Organization says is as high as 75%.

(CNN) — A state in southern India is taking measures to contain an outbreak of the Nipah virus after two people died from the rare and often deadly disease, shutting schools and testing hundreds to ...

Federal and state officials say pasteurized milk available in grocery stores is safe from bird flu but caution that raw milk is not. So how do you know what you're drinking is safe? The H5N1 bird flu ...

Our reporter went to Congo, where the mpox epidemic has reached the teeming capital, infecting children and their mothers, who sell sex to survive. An mpox patient ...

PARIS (Reuters) -France extended vaccination campaigns to contain a new variant of the bluetongue virus and the epizootic haemorrhagic disease, or EHD, livestock diseases that have been spreading in ...

In July 2022, Ghana confirmed its first two cases of the deadly Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease in the same family as the virus that causes Ebola. The Conversation Africa’s Wale Fatade and ...

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