Marburg Virus Outbreak: CDC Issues Warnings to Travelers, Deploys Personnel to Help Combat Deadly Surge in Africa

Medicine & Technology Apr 03, 2023

Following the Marburg virus outbreaks in Guinea and Tanzania, the CDC warns travelers and deploys personnel to help quell the surge. Read to learn more.

Marburg Virus First Case Confirmed in Guinea, Fruit Bats Host What WHO Tags As 'Highly Dangerous' Disease

Aug 10, 2021

Marburg virus is a highly dangerous illness that, according to experts, starts in fruit bats. It was first detected in Germany in 1967.

WHO Announced the End of the Second Ebola Outbreak in Guinea that Claimed 12 Lives

Jun 21, 2021

The World Health Organization (WHO) officially declares the end of the second Ebola outbreak in Guinea, which emerged in mid-February and claimed 12 lives.

Latest Ebola Outbreak May Have Started With Someone Infected Years Ago, Experts Say

Mar 13, 2021

Experts said the Ebola virus might have laid low in a person who got the virus 5 years ago, then spread instead of jumping from animals to humans.

7 Cases of the Ebola Virus Confirmed in Guinea

Feb 15, 2021

A leading health official in the West African nation recently said Guinea had entered an "Ebola 'epidemic situation' with seven confirmed cases," including three fatalities.

U.N Says Ebola Outbreak Could Be Gone By the Summer

Mar 23, 2015

Exactly one year ago today, on March 23, 2014, the World Health Organization announced there was an Ebola outbreak in Guinea. At that point, there were 49 cases of Ebola that had resulted in the deaths of 29 people from the disease. Since the outbreak, Ebola has claimed the lives of more than 10,000 people in West Africa. But, the United Nations now believes that the Ebola outbreak could be gone by the end of August.

Healthcare Workers Attacked in Guinea as Locals Give Ebola the Upper Hand

Feb 14, 2015

In light of news that healthcare workers with the Red Cross planned to disinfect a local school infected with Ebola, crowds of central Guinean residents attacked an Ebola facility and healthcare workers, government officials reported Saturday, Feb. 14. Though the healthcare workers continue to try to fight and contain the disease, local uprisings have interfered greatly with their work in the field. And government officials are saying that the counterproductive actions of locals are forcefully giving the Ebola virus the upper hand.

Could Killing the Bats End New Ebola Transmission? Why Death Won’t Work

Dec 30, 2014

Pursuing the newest origin of the viral pathogen deep within the forests of West Africa, health officials believe that they may have found the source of the infection in a hollowed out tree. But the issue is far more complex than many would like to think.

Health Officials Believe They May Have Found Source of Newest Ebola Outbreak

Dec 30, 2014

While the viral pathogen continues to claim lives in West Africa, health officials believe that they may have now found the source of the infection, in a hollowed out tree. After making an expedition to patient zero’s—a two-year-old boy named Emile Ouamouno—hometown in Meliandou, Guinea, researchers believe that they may have found the source of Ebola in a hollow tree the young boy may have played in, which also is home to a colony of bats.

WHO Reports More Than 5,000 Deaths From Ebola as of Nov. 9

Nov 12, 2014

WHO reports more than 5,000 deaths from Ebola as of Nov. 9

First Ebola casualty was a boy from Guinea, researchers say

Oct 28, 2014

Researchers track roots of the Ebola epidemic to a boy from Guinea

WHO Predicts Ebola Outbreak Could Worsen by 1000% as Soon as December

Oct 14, 2014

While health officials are attempting to isolate the spread of the disease, fear and ignorance of the disease have allowed for major setbacks to propagate across the West African nations, leading to further casualties of the disease. Now, after months of assessing the situation in the field, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported Tuesday, Oct. 14, that the rate of infection may increase by ten-fold, to 10,000 new cases per week as early as this December.