The Marburg virus, a close cousin of Ebola, currently has no approved treatments or vaccines to protect against it.
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There has been an epidemic outbreak of Marburg virus in Equatorial Guinea for the first time. Here’s what you need to know about the virus, and how it spreads.
Although treatments for Ebola have helped many people overcome this deadly disease, the virus can persist in the brain and cause a lethal relapse.
Many African countries are experienced in managing outbreaks of viral haemorrhagic fevers and many of the lessons learnt from the Ebola can be applied to the Marburg outbreak.
The Marburg virus will be present wherever the Egyptian Rousette bat occurs.
Experts assess Nigeria’s response to COVID-19 so far and express worry that the country does not appear to have learnt much; it isn’t prepared for the next pandemic.
As ready as you are to be done with COVID-19, it’s not going anywhere soon. A historian of disease describes how once a pathogen emerges, it’s usually here to stay.
There aren’t enough international and domestic laws to address how the interests of humans and the needs of wildlife overlap.
Before a vaccine is available to teach your immune system to ward off the coronavirus, maybe you can directly use molecules that have already fought it in other people.
Emphasizing foreign origins of a disease can have racist connotations and implications for how people understand their own risk of disease.
In a health crisis, decisions about treatment and containment must be made quickly. It’s crucial those decisions be based on research evidence, but fast and easy access is not always available.
While identifying a new disease by its place of origin seems intuitive, history shows that doing so can have serious consequences for the people that live there.
The current outbreak refuses to give in to efforts by an international team of health care workers, armed with vaccines and treatment that did not even exist during previous episodes.
Nearly everything known about Ebola virus persistence in the reproductive system has resulted from testing semen of West African Ebola virus disease survivors.
Borders are porous between North Kivu province of the DRC and neighbouring countries, so the potential for spread is highly likely.
Ebola is difficult to contain because of human social and behavioural factors. But it can be if 100% of the infected people’s contacts are identified and monitored.
The way humans share the world with wildlife has rapidly changed – and this is having a serious impact on the spread of pathogens.
The current Ebola outbreak in the DRC is devastating vulnerable communities already affected by displacement and violence.
Four new Ebola treatments are being tried out in the DRC.
The new Ebola vaccine is yet to be licensed but evidence shows that it protects against the strain of the virus.
Top contributors
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Principal Medical Scientist (PhD MPH), National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Head of the Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Postdoctoral Researcher, MRC-Centre for Virus Research, University of Glasgow
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Professor in the faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology
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Assistant Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
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Doctoral Student in Biochemistry, University of Washington
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Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Sussex
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Professor of Veterinary Microbiology, University of Saskatchewan
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Director of Infectious Diseases and Immunology at Gold Coast University Hospital / Associate Professor, Griffith University
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Reader in Theory of Probability, University of Sussex
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Professor of Medicine and Vice President, Research, McMaster University
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Senior Honorary Lecturer on Infectious Diseases, UCL
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Principal Researcher - Epidemiology, Wits-VIDA, University of the Witwatersrand
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Assistant Professor/Canada Research Chair in emerging viruses, University of Manitoba
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Adjunct Fellow, T.C. Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland
