Marburg has caused small, episodic outbreaks since first being identified, most recently last year in Tanzania and Ghana. It ...

As cases pertaining to the deadly Marburg virus increase in Rwanda, neighboring regions of Eastern Africa have begun ramping ...

The Ministry of Health has issued an alert on Marburg virus. In a statement on October 4, 2024, the ministry stated that it ...

There are currently no licensed vaccines or drugs to prevent or treat Marburg, but experimental versions are heading to ...

Marburg hemorrhagic fever has killed 11 people in Rwanda, health authorities said Thursday, as the East African country searches for the source of an outbreak first traced among patients in health ...

The U.N. has adopted a lengthy "pact" of items for the world to address for a better tomorrow. We asked global thinkers if ...

Health officials in Rwanda are dealing with the country’s first outbreak of the Marburg virus, an Ebola-like disease which, ...

The report dubbed 2024 State of Africa’s Environment on theme water shows a clear upward trend in the number of water conflicts rising from 28 in 2019 to 71 in 2023 representing an increase of ...

At last week’s Forum on China–Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) summit in Beijing, attended by more than 50 African leaders, China once again pushed for its own development initiatives as an ...

"This first (authorisation) of a vaccine against mpox is an important step in our fight against the disease, both in the context of the current outbreaks in Africa, and in future," said WHO ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed a disputed education bill into law, but delayed implementation of two clauses that had threatened to fracture South Africa’s nearly three-month-old unity ...

Some of the vaccines were used outside of Africa in 2022 when mpox spread globally. A small fraction of those doses could help curb what is now the biggest mpox outbreak on record in the ...