Enlarge / An electron micrograph of a number of Marburg virions responsible for causing Marburg virus disease. reader comments 36 with Share this story Equatorial Guinea’s first outbreak of Marburg virus—a relative of the Ebola virus that causes similarly deadly hemorrhagic fever—is continuing to grow, spreading over a wide geographic area with potentially undetected chains ..
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Enlarge / A World Health Organisation (WHO) alert team takes out a body in Nganakamana village near Uige on April 26, 2005. In outbreaks of viral haemorrhagic fevers, including Marburg, unprotected exposure to dead bodies is a significant cause of further spread. reader comments 36 with Share this story Health officials are racing to stamp ..
Enlarge / Red Cross workers don PPE prior to burying a 3-year-old boy suspected of dying from Ebola in 2022 in Mubende, Uganda. reader comments 28 with 21 posters participating Share this story Concern is rising over the ongoing Ebola outbreak in Uganda that is now swiftly spreading in the densely populated capital city of ..
Enlarge / Health measures are taken at Mubende Regional Referral Hospital after an outbreak of Ebola in Uganda. reader comments 54 with 33 posters participating Share this story Health officials in Uganda are scrambling to catch up to a burgeoning Ebola outbreak caused by a lesser-seen Ebolavirus species called Sudan virus (SUDV), for which there ..
Enlarge / A World Health Organization worker decontaminates the house of a pastor who tested positive for Ebola in Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo. reader comments 63 with 42 posters participating Share this story Health officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are racing to investigate a potential Ebola outbreak after a 3-year-old boy ..
Enlarge / Health care workers don protective equipment before working with Ebola patients. reader comments 68 with 43 posters participating Share this story A large international research group released a paper today suggesting that Ebola viruses can emerge from five years of dormancy to trigger a new outbreak of infections. While this isn’t the first instance ..
Enlarge / Health care workers wearing personal protective equipment stand in a tent with patient beds at an Ebola Treatment Center in Coyah, Guinea, on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015. reader comments 45 with 28 posters participating Share this story Two unrelated Ebola outbreaks have erupted in two countries that have already faced some of the ..
Enlarge / Staff from South Sudan’s Health Ministry pose with protective suits during a drill for Ebola preparedness conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO). reader comments 15 with 14 posters participating Share this story Covid-19 Coverage View more stories The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday issued the first-ever approval for a therapy against ..
Enlarge / Health workers operate within an Ebola safety zone in the Health Center in Iyonda, near Mbandaka, on June 1, 2018. reader comments 33 with 28 posters participating Share this story A new outbreak of Ebola has ignited in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is still trying to stamp out an Ebola ..
Enlarge / A man receives a vaccine against Ebola from a nurse outside the Afia Himbi Health Center on July 15, 2019, in Goma. reader comments 21 with 19 posters participating Share this story Regulators in Europe have granted the world’s first approval of a vaccine against Ebola—and health officials are wasting no time in ..