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.

Lockdown Again? China's Xi'an Residents Ordered to Remain Indoors Beginning Today as the City Faces Dual Epidemic Threats

Dec 23, 2021

As Beijing prepares to host the 2022 Winter Olympics in February, China is on heightened alert as it combats local outbreaks in several cities including the city of Xi'an.

CDC Announced Deadly Hemorrhagic Fever Can Now Spread Between People

Nov 17, 2020

The deadly hemorrhagic fever with Ebola-like symptoms has resurfaced, and experts said that this animal virus can now spread between people.

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.

In United States 21 Days Signals Waning Ebola Infection

Oct 20, 2014

Today marks 21 days of quarantine since the Ebola infection spread into the US by an infected Dallas patient, who recently fled Liberia. And as none of the individuals quarantined for their close contact with the infected have developed the often fatal hemorrhagic fever, health officials are hopeful that their clean bill of health is a sign that the Ebola virus will not find a foothold here in the United States.

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.