WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) has donated essential medical equipment worth $30,000 (78m/-) to help combat the Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) outbreak in Kagera Region. In a statement, WHO’s ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) and other conditions affecting the immune system can activate the John Cunningham (JC) virus, causing a potentially life threatening infection. The JC virus is common ...

The Ministry of Health has intensified surveillance and screening at all 26 ports of entry into the country in the wake of the discovery of Ebola and Marburg in the neighbouring countries. Public ...

BUKOBA: IN efforts to control the spread of Marburg Virus Disease (MVD), radio presenters from 14 stations based in the Lake Zone Regions namely Mwanza, Kigoma, Shinyanga, Kagera, Simiyu and Mara have ...

“You tend to have one or the other virus predominant at any given time,” said Anice Lowen, a professor of microbiology and immunology at the Emory University School of Medicine. Here’s what ...

Notably, bats serve as major reservoirs for several zoonotic viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, Ebola virus (EBOV), Marburg virus (MARV), and Nipah virus (NiV), while livestock intermediaries such as ...

Shirin Ashraf does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Advances in our understanding of the hepatitis C virus (HCV ... host factors for its life cycle. Targeting these factors is a possible approach to limit HCV replication without the development ...

MCV protein Function Mechanism Homologs Ref. MC159 Inhibits apoptosis and inhibits NF-κB Binds FADD and IKKγ MCV MC160, KSHV K13 and cFLIPs [29,30,51,62,63,67] ...