Equatorial Guinea has confirmed its first-ever outbreak of Marburg virus disease, with at least nine fatalities that have forced a lockdown in Nsok Nsomo and the Kie Ntem district near the border with Gabon and Cameroon. Officials with the World Health Organization (WHO) said samples were taken from those infected…
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Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) say they’ve made promising breakthroughs in understanding how a treatment for the deadly Marburg virus might work. The team led by Erica Ollmann Saphire, a TSRI professor and senior author of the study, mapped the Marburg virus structure using high-resolution imaging to better…
The World Health Organization said Friday it is working with Uganda to contain an outbreak of Marburg virus disease (MVD) that has appeared in the eastern parts of the country near the Kenya border. WHO confirmed that at least one of two reported deaths is tied to MVD, a virus in…