Bats are reservoirs (long-term hosts) for diseases like Ebola, Marburg virus ... is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa and is widely hunted for bushmeat. It is known to harbour a range of ...

A potential Ebola outbreak has been reported in a western part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in what would be the second viral hemorrhagic fever outbreak in the region at a time when ...

Ten years ago, I was in the hospital battling Ebola. My fever rarely relented. I felt so weak that getting up was a herculean task, attempted only a few times a day. Having treated patients with ...

Tanzania’s president has confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus disease (MVD), a highly infectious virus like Ebola that can be fatal in up to 88 per cent of cases without treatment.

Researchers at the University of Iowa (UI) Health Care and colleagues at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute, and Boston University, used human skin explants to track the cellular route that ...

The average Ebola case fatality rate is around 50%. Case fatality rates have varied from 25-90% in past outbreaks. The Bleeding Eye Virus: As the world continues to grapple with global health ...

Marburg belongs to the same family of illnesses as Ebola and can cause death in up to 88% of cases. President Samia Suluhu Hassan said on Monday that at least one person in the northwest of the ...

contact with the body or body fluids of someone who died from Ebola disease sexual contact with someone who has Ebola disease contact with semen of someone who has recovered from Ebola disease During ...

"We would expect further cases in the coming days as disease surveillance improves." Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact with ...

Symptoms show up 2 to 21 days after being exposed to Ebola. The average is 8-10 days. Symptoms are: Fever. Fever is usually the first symptom. Stomach pain, vomiting or diarrhea. Severe headache, ...

What he didn’t know then was that the man, who ran a bar-come-brothel, was ‘patient zero’ in an outbreak of a new, more dangerous strain of mpox called clade 1b, which would trigger a global health ...