BUKOBA: IN efforts to control the spread of Marburg Virus Disease (MVD), radio presenters from 14 stations based in the Lake ...
A tin mine in Kigali has been identified as the source of Rwanda’s first Marburg virus outbreak ... where a 10,000-strong colony of Egyptian fruit bats roosts. Rather than closing the mine ...
Genomic tracing and rapid vaccine deployment helped Rwanda overcome deadly virus with lowest recorded fatality rate.
A fruit bat - Rousettus aegyptiacus - is considered the natural host of Marburg virus. The Marburg virus is transmitted to people from fruit bats and spreads among humans through human-to-human ...
Nine people have died in a new outbreak of an 'eye-bleeding' Ebola-like virus, global health chiefs ... exposure to mines or caves inhabited by fruit bats. Symptoms appear abruptly and include ...
The Tanzanian government is taking decisive action to combat the resurgence of Marburg virus disease ... be initially transmitted to humans by fruit bats in north Africa and can spread between ...
Concerned officials in the African nation have launched a probe to discover the cause of the outbreak, warning it could pose ...
At least 50 fatalities reported after three children ate a bat and quickly died following haemorrhagic fever symptoms ...
AT LEAST seven more people have died and 500 left sick from a mystery illness ravaging villages in north-western Congo, new ...
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