US President Donald Trump began a three-day summit in Washington D.C. with the leaders of five African states, an event the White House sees as an "incredible" commercial opportunity.

But this is no ordinary bat colony. The thousands of Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus) found in this cave are known carriers of one of the world's deadliest viruses: Marburg, a close cousin ...

In many Ghanaian cultures, death is not seen as an end, but a passage; an important transition into the ancestral realm .

The Democratic Republic of Congo had 16, which made sense; the country has recorded more than 10 Ebola outbreaks since the 1970s. The model highlighted additional spots in Ghana, Burundi and Benin.

Nine people in Equatorial Guinea died of a viral fever this month, linked to the highly contagious and incredibly deadly Marburg virus.

As organizations and companies develop a large portfolio of vaccines for priority pathogens, creating stockpiles of these products-in-development should be a priority.

The most recent outbreak of the Marburg virus, a disease similar in nature to Ebola, has claimed its first infant victim, according to a new report. The West African nation of Ghana is currently ...

Health The deadly Marburg virus—a close cousin of Ebola—reemerges in Ghana The virus causes severe viral haemorrhagic fever in humans with an average case fatality rate of around 50 percent.

According to ABC News, Ghana on Sunday confirmed the nation’s first outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus, a highly infectious Ebola-like disease for which there is no approved vaccine or treatment.

Ghana has announced the country’s first outbreak of Marburg virus disease after a World Health Organization (WHO) laboratory confirmed earlier test results. Previous Marburg outbreaks and ...

WHO declares Marburg outbreak in Ghana, after first two cases of deadly Ebola-like virus reported No treatment or vaccine exists for Marburg, which is almost as deadly as Ebola.

The World Health Organization has declared Ghana's first outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg virus. Labs confirmed the infections in two cases announced earlier this month. The first case was a 26 ...