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Urgent meeting on Marburg virus by WHO today

Bloomberg: Equatorial Guinea reported its first outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus after an unknown illness causing hemorrhagic fever killed at leas...

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Nine people have died in the western Kie Ntem Province of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea after the first-ever "outbreak" of the Marburg virus over the past week.



Several experimental vaccines and drugs have been shown, so far only in animals, to prevent or treat this viral cousin of Ebola.

The World Health Organization (WHO) will hold an emergency meeting in connection to the Marburg virus disease outbreak in Equatorial Guinea.

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday convened an "urgent meeting" amid an outbreak of the Marburg virus, ...

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1901 was awarded to Emil Adolf von Behring "for his work on serum therapy, especially its application against diphtheria, by which he has opened a new road in the domain of medical science and thereby placed in the hands of the physician a victorious weapon against illness and deaths"

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008 was divided, one half awarded to Harald zur Hausen "for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer", the other half jointly to Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier "for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus"

New York, N.Y. (PRWEB) February 06, 2023 -- As part of the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly Plenary on Tuesday, the U.N. will hear