Release date- 06082019 - GSK and the Sabin Vaccine Institute (Sabin) today announced exclusive agreements for Sabin to advance the development of the prophylactic candidate vaccines against the deadly Ebola Zaire, Ebola Sudan and the closely related, but lesser known,
Marburg virus.
GeoVax Labs announced positive results from preclinical challenge studies of its
Marburg virus vaccine candidate;
Marburg virus a critical medical threat against which there is currently no available vaccine or treatment.
Following the recent discovery of the deadly
Marburg Virus in the Country, the Ministry of Health and Sanitation under the 1 Health Platform, which consists of Environment Protection Agency, Office of National Security, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, has concluded a 7 day District and Chiefdom stakeholders engagements in Koinadugu, Kono and Moyamba Districts last Wednesday.
An outbreak of a related virus known as
Marburg Virus has begun in a city called Turkana along the Kenya-Uganda border in East Africa.
In August and September 1967, an outbreak of a viral hemorrhagic fever occurred among laboratory workers in
Marburg and Frankfurt, Germany, and Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia) who were processing kidneys from African green monkeys that had been imported from Uganda.
Medical research company Albert Einstein College of Medicine reported on Friday the receipt of three NIH grants, valued at more than USD12m, for research to protect against three deadly viruses: Ebola,
Marburg and hantavirus.
Visitors to the sites of the events in
Marburg can take a trip into the past.Luther is said to have crossed the River Lahn at Weidenhaus Bridge in a coach, with his entire retinue.
Infection with
Marburg virus and the appropriate Ebola virus can create severe disease in individuals, with high temperature and bleeding.
Marburg virus infection detected in a common African bat.