Uganda:Team Keeps Finding New Viruses - Researcher
[Independent (Kampala)] Kampala -The government response to the 2017 Marburg virus outbreak in Kween District, eastern Uganda cost Shs5.2billion. Most of that money came from donors. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 11, 2018 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Annual Epidemiological Report for 2015: Ebola and Marburg Fevers
European Union, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. 01/2018 This four-page surveillance report is based on data for 2015 retrieved from The European Surveillance System (TESSy) on December 12, 2016, and additional information from epidemic intelligence. It states that no cases of Ebola viral hemorrhagic fever and Marburg hemorrhagic fever infections were reported in European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) countries in 2015. (PDF) (Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health)
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - March 3, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news
How bats carry viruses without getting sick
(Cell Press) Bats are known to harbor highly pathogenic viruses like Ebola or Marburg and yet they do not show clinical signs of disease. In a paper published in the journal Cell Host& Microbe on February 22, scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China find that in bats, an antiviral immune pathway called the STING-interferon pathway is dampened, and bats can maintain just enough defense against illness without triggering a heightened immune reaction. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - February 22, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
2018 Annual Review of the Blueprint List of Priority Diseases
World Health Organization. 02/08/2018 This Web page provides the 2018 List of Priority Diseases, which include Ebola virus disease and Marburg virus disease, Lassa fever, Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), and Zika virus. Experts consider that given their potential to cause a public health emergency and the absence of efficacious drugs and/or vaccines, there is an urgent need for accelerated research and development for these diseases. (Text) (Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health)
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - February 10, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news
TSRI scientists discover workings of first promising Marburg virus treatment
(Scripps Research Institute) Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have discovered the workings of the first promising treatment for Marburg virus, a pathogen with the same pandemic potential as Ebola virus. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - January 10, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Researchers inhibit ebola virus
(University of Copenhagen The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences) The incurable Ebola virus has long been feared due to its high mortality rate and danger of infection. Now researchers from the University of Copenhagen and Phillips Universit ä t Marburg have succeeded in inhibiting the virus in cell cultures. The researchers hope to be able to continue doing animal testing and developing an actual drug. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - December 29, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Uganda:MSF Ends Its Intervention in Response to the Marburg Fever Outbreak
[MSF] Ugandan authorities have declared the end of the Marburg fever outbreak that has affected the eastern part of the country since October. MSF provided support to local authorities, in particular in case management capacity and epidemic surveillance. MSF, the Ugandan Ministry of Health and their partners have also introduced new tools which will improve case management in future haemorrhagic fever outbreaks. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 11, 2017 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Uganda:Uganda Declared Marburg Free
[Monitor] Kampala -The Ministry of Health has declared Uganda Marburg free. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 9, 2017 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Uganda says it has contained an outbreak of Marburg hemorrhagic fever
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda said on Friday it had successfully contained an outbreak of the Marburg virus, a highly infectious haemorrhagic fever announced by officials on Oct. 19, which killed three people. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 8, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Uganda controls deadly Marburg fever outbreak, WHO says
Uganda controls deadly Marburg fever outbreak, World Health Organization says (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - December 8, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Uganda ends Marburg virus disease outbreak
Uganda has successfully controlled an outbreak of Marburg virus disease and prevented its spread only weeks after it was first detected, the World Health Organization said on Friday (December 8). “Uganda has led an exemplary response. Health authorities and partners, with the support of WHO, were able to detect and control the spread of Marburg virus disease within a matter of weeks,” said Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa. (Source: WHO news)
Source: WHO news - December 8, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: marburg [subject], marburg haemorrhagic fever Source Type: news
International Health Emergency Response Plan: Marburg Virus Disease
World Health Organization, Regional Office for Africa. 11/2017 This 15-page document details the confirmed outbreak of Marburg virus disease in Kween district, eastern Uganda, that was officially declared by the Ministry of Health on October 19, 2017. It discusses the response strategy, and how the World Health Organization, working closely with national partners and the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN), is supporting the ministries of health to stop the spread of the virus; care for those infected; and provide coordination and technical and operational response. (PDF) (Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guid...
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - November 17, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news
Marburg virus disease – Uganda and Kenya
Disease Outbreak News Uganda Kenya Marburg virus disease (Source: WHO Disease Outbreaks)
Source: WHO Disease Outbreaks - November 15, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: news Source Type: news
Uganda:Managing Marburg - How an Oddly Timed Outbreak is Testing Emergency Strategies
[Independent (Kampala)] Kampala -On Oct.11, a woman died in Chemuron village, Kween District in an Eastern Uganda. She had a fever, headache, and was bleeding from several places. Doctors attending to her had feared the worst and sent her samples for testing. A week later, on Oct.17, experts at Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) confirmed the 50-year old woman had succumbed to a high mortality hemorrhagic fever - Marburg. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 8, 2017 Category: African Health Source Type: news
