Some were stigmatised in their communities, because people became scared they might bring the virus home with them. In reality, they were helping to stem world's worst ever Ebola outbreak.
Marburg virus has killed five people in Tanzania's north-western Kagera region, the health ministry has said. High fever is a common symptom of the deadly Ebola-like virus, often followed by ...
Apart from that, high risk individuals include diabetics, immunocompromised patients, patients with kidney and liver failure and HIV infected people.’ Here is how the Ebola virus spreads in humans.
Ebola virus, being highly pathogenic for humans and non-human primates and the subject of former weapons programmes, is now one of the most feared pathogens worldwide. In addition, the lack of pre ...
“We know that viruses evolve — we have seen it with Ebola, we have seen ... suggesting that this strain of the virus could, like IIb, spread readily between people. Genomic sequencing ...
Ebola is a deadly and terrible virus: It seems to kill about 70% of people infected, though it's hard to know the true numbers while the outbreak is still in progress, and this outbreak has ...
Ebola may not be as contagious as many people think – the virus spreads through direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected, symptomatic person – but the risks were nevertheless real.