The often-deadly Ebola virus disease (EVD) is confined mostly to Africa, but because of how globally connected the world is today, it is regarded as a possible health threat worldwide. Still ...

This short manuscript uses mutation counts in phylogenies of millions of SARS-CoV-2 genomes to show that mutation rates systematically differ between regions that are paired or unpaired in the ...

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The Red Cross voiced alarm Tuesday over the risk that fighting in the besieged DR Congo city of Goma could cause samples of Ebola and other pathogens held in a laboratory to escape.

Contact with contaminated objects includes, contact with surfaces, materials (such as bedding) or medical equipment (such as needles) contaminated with a virus that can cause Ebola disease. Wash your ...

The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) works closely with national and international partners to track Ebola disease outbreaks. These partners include the provinces and territories as well as the ...

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A Bolivian man has died after contracting Chapare virus, an Ebola-like disease so rare that there have only ever been 15 confirmed cases. The man, a farmer in his 50s, came down with a headache ...

The president of Tanzania has confirmed a case of the Marburg virus in the country. Marburg belongs to the same family of illnesses as Ebola and can cause death in up to 88% of cases. President ...

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Tanzania’s president has confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus disease (MVD), a highly infectious virus like Ebola that can be fatal in up to 88 per cent of cases without treatment.