CDC layoffs strike deeply at its ability to respond to current flu, norovirus and measles outbreaks
Trump administration has taken actions to dismantle established public health infrastructure as part of its second-term ...
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How Rwanda's rapid response stemmed a Marburg outbreak
In July 2024, Rwanda faced a Marburg virus outbreak among health workers in the capital Kigali, challenging the nation's health system and testing its pandemic response capabilities. For Rwanda, it ...
Ebola outbreak reported in African country — here’s what you need to know
An Ebola outbreak has been reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Experts share concerns about the highly fatal and contagious hemorrhagic fever.
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Rwanda’s Mine-dwelling Bats Linked to Deadly Marburg Outbreak
A tin mine in Kigali has been identified as the source of Rwanda’s first Marburg virus outbreak, which killed 15 people and ...
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Who is protecting Americans from Marburg right now?
Psaki is a former U.S. coordinator for global health security of the National Security Council. On Saturday, Jan. 11, as we entered the final week of the Biden-Harris administration, I got a call ...
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Nine dead of Ebola-like ‘eye-bleeding disease’ with mortality rate of 90% in fresh outbreak triggering ‘pandemic fears’
Since the country officially announced the outbreak last week, ten people have tested positive for Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease similar to Ebola. Of these, nine have died ...
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In the wake of its outbreak, Rwanda is examining its Marburg survivors
Rwanda is studying the survivors of its recent Marburg outbreak to better understand how they survived. Rwanda swiftly brought its recent outbreak of Marburg to a close at the end of December. The ...
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WHO donates medical outfits worth $30,000 to curtail Marburg outbreak
WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) has donated essential medical equipment worth $30,000 (78m/-) to help combat the Marburg ...
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Radio presenters enlightened on Marburg virus
BUKOBA: IN efforts to control the spread of Marburg Virus Disease (MVD), radio presenters from 14 stations based in the Lake ...
Ugandan health authorities are set to begin an Ebola vaccine trial after new outbreak kills a nurse
Tanzania declared an outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg disease earlier this month, while in December Rwanda announced that its own outbreak of Marburg was over. The ongoing Marburg outbreak in ...
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Marburg virus has 'no plausible scientific link' with snake venom
Experts say the Marburg virus has no evolutionary or scientific link proteins in snake venoms and is unlikely to spread globally. Marburg virus disease, a severe hemorrhagic fever that has a high ...
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Devex CheckUp: Global health in freefall amid funding freeze
The Trump administration's stop-work order is affecting the HIV response in Uganda, along with malaria and TB programs globally. Plus, a look inside the infamous "Tunnel 12," the source of Rwanda’s ...