UVA Health has been awarded a $500,000 federal grant aimed at strengthening its ability to respond to major infectious ...

There are two licensed vaccines for Ebola virus, but no vaccines are licensed for Sudan virus or Marburg virus.

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Island Pharmaceuticals has scored a big win with the grant of a US patent relating to the use of Galidesivir in treating ...

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Ethiopia confirms first outbreak of Marburg virus, closely related to Ebola. WHO warns of its high lethality and has ...

Infectious disease researchers have identified Pteropine orthoreoviruses (PRVs), a group of newly emergent bat-borne viruses, ...

Jinka, the central city of the Omo region in southwestern Ethiopia, lies on the border between civilization and nature. Once bustling with cross-border traders connecting Kenya and South Sudan and ...

In the Middle Ages, a plague killed a third of Europe's population. Fleas carried the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, ...

The Cameroonian professor made the Time most influential list in 2025 and saw the project he co-founded receive $100m for its virus detection work. Now he is on a mission to transform Africa’s genomic ...

Three people confirmed to have contracted the Marburg virus have died, while another three deaths are suspected to be linked to the highly contagious haemorrhagic disease, Ethiopia’s Health Ministry ...

Health Minister Mekdes Daba said Ethiopia, which declared a Marburg outbreak on Friday, had conducted tests in 17 suspected cases in the country's south. Ethiopia on Monday confirmed three deaths from ...