The Marburg virus is a member of the filoviridae (filoviruses) family. The disease has an incubation period of 2 to 21 days, according to WHO. It then manifests its symptoms suddenly.
Health officials urge vaccination against the highly contagious virus, which has caused 121 infections in the country this year Will Sullivan Daily Correspondent The measles virus as seen through ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has warned of a "renewed threat" to measles elimination in the US as cases continue to skyrocket. According to CDC data, the US has recorded ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is calling for action to increase U.S. measles immunization amid a rise in cases that could threaten the nation’s status as one where the ...
Nearly a third of all U.S. measles cases in the past four years happened during a three-month stretch in 2024, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The rise ...
The CDC is taking the US bird flu outbreak 'very seriously' amid growing fears the virus could jump to humans and cause an epidemic. A farm worker in Texas became the second American ever to be ...
In 2000, after a decadeslong public health battle and a Herculean vaccination program, the US won a coveted status: measles elimination. The designation means that the extremely infectious measles ...
The Texas patient who contracted bird flu had only a single symptom and that was consistent with a very common disease, it has emerged. The infected person, reportedly a worker in the dairy ...
The CDC says this recommendation is intended to “protect those who may have received killed measles vaccine, which was available in 1963-1967 and was not effective.” ...
As avian influenza (bird flu) continues to spread among wild birds in the European Union, officials are warning of the ...