In an unprecedented move, Uganda's rapid launch of an Ebola vaccine trial is not only a significant scientific milestone, but also a bold statement that the world can no longer afford to wait for ...

Breastfeeding is so important for child health that the World Health Organization (WHO) and Unicef recommend that babies ...

The Red Cross voiced alarm Tuesday over the risk that fighting in the besieged DR Congo city of Goma could cause samples of Ebola and other pathogens held in a laboratory to escape.

A Bolivian man has died after contracting Chapare virus, an Ebola-like disease so rare that there have only ever been 15 confirmed cases. The man, a farmer in his 50s, came down with a headache ...

The viral hemorrhagic fever has a fatality rate as high as 88%, and is from the same virus family as the one responsible for Ebola, which is transmitted to people from fruit bats endemic to parts of ...

The president of Tanzania has confirmed a case of the Marburg virus in the country. Marburg belongs to the same family of illnesses as Ebola and can cause death in up to 88% of cases. President ...

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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.

Now, researchers used cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) to elucidate the structure of the Nipah virus polymerase complex (the large protein and phosphoprotein). Not only that, but they also ...

Marburg virus is a dangerous pathogen similar to the Ebola virus. It can cause fever, muscle pain, diarrhea and vomiting in humans. Within about a week, it can lead to severe blood loss and ...

Researchers have profiled the molecular structure and features of a key ... for Disease Control and Prevention. By comparison, Ebola virus kills between 25 and 90 percent of those infected in ...