The Global Health and Infectious Diseases Research Group (GHID-KCCR) at the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR) has hosted researchers from Cameroon, Guinea, and ...

A MUTANT flu strain that has only been spotted in animals, is now “spreading undetected” humans, leading scientists have warned. The strain, dubbed “influenza D”, is mainly ...

Closely related to Ebola, the Marburg virus causes severe hemorrhagic fever with a high fatality rate. With no widely ...

A nurse who was being treated for Nipah virus infection in West Bengal has died, raising fresh concerns about human transmission risk, deadly symptoms, and outbreak preparedness. The 25-year-old had ...

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The World Health Organisation has told travellers there is a “low risk” of a serious infectious disease spreading from India. On 13 January, two confirmed cases of Nipah virus were reported in ...

Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) is a fatal zoonotic disease of humans and nonhuman primates caused by the Marburg virus (MARV) of the Filoviridae family, and presenting as hemorrhagic fever with a high ...

Dr. Ellen Foxman still remembers her young son struggling to breathe as he battled an asthma attack that tightened his small airways. For any parent, it’s a frightening moment – one that has stayed ...

The internet has been abuzz with "Nipah virus" after two cases were recently identified in health care workers in India. Could this be our next COVID-19? The World Health Organization named it a ...