A young Ugandan scientist’s camera footage captured predators feeding on Marburg-carrying bats, revealing a new possible ...

In the shadows of Python Cave, Uganda, a leopard leaps from a guano mound—formed by bat excrement—and sinks its teeth into a ...

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The vaccines are intended to be developed for use against Marburg virus and Sudan ebolavirus, two hemorrhagic fevers in the ...

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The US Department of Health and Human Services is weighing whether to fund new Marburg and Sudan Ebola virus vaccines even as Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. overhauls the US immunization landscape, ...

Why does the discovery matter? For decades, disease ecologists have known that major outbreaks often originate in wildlife – swine flu, avian flu and even SARS-CoV-2 all trace back to animal hosts.

Marburg virus is an infectious agent belonging to the virus family Filoviridae, which also includes the Ebolavirus genus, and causes a rare and severe type of haemorrhagic fever in humans and non ...

Deadly viruses throughout history From the Ebola to COVID-19, diseases caused by viruses have killed humans throughout history. Viruses are much older than human beings, possibly even older than ...

Because subsequent Marburg virus outbreaks have occurred in African sites poorly served by advanced medical care, this remains the best description of Marburg-virus disease in humans, and is ...

That is significant in part because the fruit bats, including in the area’s caves, are known to be a natural reservoir for infectious diseases, including the deadly Marburg virus.