CDC Alerts Docs to Watch for Potential Imported Marburg Cases
(MedPage Today) -- While there have been no confirmed cases of Marburg virus disease (MVD) outside Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania, clinicians and public health experts should be aware of the potential for imported cases, the CDC said.
In a Health... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - April 7, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news
CDC warns doctors to watch for Marburg virus amid outbreaks in two African nations
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health advisory Thursday about the Marburg virus outbreak in Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania. (Source: CNN.com - Health)
Source: CNN.com - Health - April 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
New Marburg Outbreaks in Africa Raise Alarm About the Deadly Virus ’s Spread
The spread of the Ebola-like virus has claimed lives but could be a crucial chance to test a vaccine — if supplies and researchers are mobilized in time. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - April 3, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Stephanie Nolen Tags: Vaccination and Immunization Marburg Virus Ebola Virus Clinical Trials Research World Health Organization Africa Equatorial Guinea Tanzania your-feed-science your-feed-healthcare Source Type: news
Cameroon: Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea Traders Say Marburg Travel Restrictions Suffocate Trade
[VOA] Yaounde, Cameroon -- Hundreds of merchants gathered Friday in Kye Ossi, a Cameroonian town on the border with Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, to protest travel restrictions imposed since an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus. They say the restrictions are suffocating trade and violate a Central African regional agreement on the free movement of people and goods. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 3, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
There's a second outbreak of Marburg virus in Africa. Climate change could be a factor
The first outbreak this year was in Equatorial Guinea, which has seen 20 deaths already. Now there are cases reported in Tanzania as well for this infectious disease with a high fatality rate.(Image credit: Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images) (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - March 31, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Fran Kritz Source Type: news
News at a glance: A particle ’s weighty measurement, Marburg in Africa, and a fossil called “the blob”
PARTICLE PHYSICS
Particle mass dispels hint of new physics
A fleeting, weighty elementary particle called the W boson has just the mass predicted by theory, physicists working with Europe’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) reported this week at a conference in Italy. The finding comes from ATLAS, one of four large particle detectors fed by the LHC, and it contradicts
the eyebrow-raising measurement
reported last year in
Science
that suggested
the W was heavier than predicted by physicists’ prevailing standard model
. That discrepancy could have signaled that massive ne...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 30, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Bird Flu Detected in Human; Pope Francis Hospitalized; Tranq Legislation Introduced
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Chile detected its first case of bird flu in a human, the country's health ministry reported. (Reuters)
Equatorial Guinea confirmed a total of 13 cases of Marburg disease since... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
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Africa: Marburg Virus Outbreaks Highlight Link Between Health and Planet - WHO Chief
[UN News] The head of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday that the agency was working to help contain Marburg virus disease outbreaks in Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania, advocating for more global action to implement a UN-led "One Health" approach. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 30, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Exposure to interparental violence and justification of intimate partner violence among women in Papua New Guinea - Aboagye RG, Asare BYA, Adu C, Cadri A, Seidu AA, Ahinkorah BO, Yaya S.
In this study, we examined the association between exposure to interparental violenc... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 28, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Researcher Calls 1st Marburg Virus Outbreak A ‘Lab Leak,’ Here’s Why Experts Pushed Back
A researcher tweeted what he called a “fun fact” about the Marburg Virus that’s currently spreading and threatening lives in Tanzania and Equatorial Guinea. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - March 27, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Bruce Y. Lee, Senior Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation Science /science business pharma Source Type: news
West Africa: Cameroon, Gabon Reinforce Travel Restrictions After Equatorial Guinea Confirms Marburg Cases
[VOA] Yaounde, Cameroon -- Cameroon and Gabon have stepped up border security after neighboring Equatorial Guinea confirmed a spreading Marburg virus has killed at least nine people. Despite the controls, people are still traveling across the porous borders, raising fears the virus that causes hemorrhagic fever could spread. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 27, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Harvard physicist plans Pacific expedition to find first interstellar meteor
Avi Loeb organizing $1.5m search to Papua New Guinea to look for what he says might be alien artifact that crashed into ocean in 2014A prominent Harvard physicist is planning a Pacific expedition to find what he thinks might be an alien artifact that smashed into the ocean.Avi Loebannounced that he is organizing a $1.5m ocean expedition to Papua New Guinea to look for fragments of an object that crashed off the coast of its Manus Island in 2014.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 24, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Maya Yang Tags: UFOs Nasa Harvard University Space Source Type: news
Harvard physicist plans expedition to find ‘alien artefact’ that fell from space
Avi Loeb organizing $1.5m search to Papua New Guinea to look for what interstellar object that crashed into ocean in 2014A prominent Harvard physicist is planning a Pacific expedition to find what he thinks might be an alien artefact that smashed into the ocean.Avi Loebannounced that he is organizing a $1.5m ocean expedition to Papua New Guinea to look for fragments of an object that crashed off the coast of its Manus Island in 2014.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 24, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Maya Yang Tags: UFOs Nasa Harvard University Space World news Science Source Type: news
Equatorial Guinea confirms 8 new cases of Marburg virus
Equatorial Guinea has confirmed another eight cases of the “highly virulent” Marburg virus, a deadly hemorrhagic fever with no authorized vaccine or treatment (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Deadly Marburg Virus Spreads to Tanzania for the First Time
Tanzania reported its first outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus after eight people developed symptoms including fever, vomiting, bleeding and kidney failure.
Testing by the east African country confirmed the presence of the highly virulent disease that causes hemorrhagic fever, the World Health Organization said in a statement late Tuesday. Five of the eight cases in Tanzania’s northwest Kagera region have died and another 161 contacts have been identified and are being monitored, the WHO said.
Tanzania is the second African country this year to report its first Marburg outbreak after Equatorial Guinea in February d...
Source: TIME: Health - March 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Janice Kew/Bloomberg Tags: Uncategorized bloomberg wire Disease healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
