Category: Marburg Virus
Interministerial meeting coordinated by MINSABS after the health alert for Marburg hemorrhagic fever issued yesterday.
EQ Ministry of Health (Machine translated to English) Today, the Minister of Health and Social Welfare, accompanied by the presidential advisers on health, and WHO consultants based in the country, held an important meeting with the departments linked to the inter-ministerial management of the current epidemic of Marburg virus hemorrhagic fever. The Minister of State […]
Feb 14, 2023
What to know about the deadly Marburg virus as new outbreak emerges
(Washington Post) The deadly Marburg virus has surfaced this week for the first time in Equatorial Guinea, causing at least nine deaths in the west African nation, according to the World Health Organization. A handful of Marburg cases were identified in Ghana late last year. Although it remains “a very rare disease in people,” according to the Centers for Disease Control […]
Feb 14, 2023
EG MoH Statement
UPDATE STATEMENT SANITARY ALERT OF THE DAYFEBRUARY 8, 2023(Machine translated) The Government of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, through the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, issues the following update on the situation of the health alert of last February 8, communicated as a result of the unusual epidemiological situation detected in the districts of […]
Feb 13, 2023
WHO Urgent Marburg Meeting
(WHO) The WHO R&D Blueprint is organizing an urgent meeting with the MARVAC partners to discuss vaccine and therapeutic candidates. We will convene an urgent meeting to outline proposed research priorities towards the newly identified Marburg outbreak in Equatorial Guinea. Agenda 1- Outbreak sit rep including diagnostics and epi info2- Review of core trial protocol (Ira Longini)3- Review […]
Feb 13, 2023
New Marburg Virus Outbreak Confirmed In Equatorial Guinea
(Forbes) Equatorial Guinea has just confirmed its first outbreak of Marburg virus, one of the families of hemorrhagic fevers related to Ebola. As with last year’s outbreak in Ghana, patient specimens had to be sent to the Institut Pasteur in Senegal for confirmation, as it requires specialized testing. One of eight samples has been confirmed […]
Feb 13, 2023
Equatorial Guinea declares outbreak of Ebola-like Marburg virus
(BNO News) An illness which has killed at least nine people in Equatorial Guinea has been identified as Marburg, a highly infectious and deadly Ebola-like virus for which there’s no vaccine, officials announced Monday. The outbreak was first detected last Tuesday, affecting people who went to a funeral ceremony in Kie-Ntem province, which borders Cameroon […]
Feb 13, 2023
Marburg vaccine shows promising results in first-in-human study
(NIH) A newly published paper in The Lancet shows that an experimental vaccine against Marburg virus (MARV) was safe and induced an immune response in a small, first-in-human clinical trial. The vaccine, developed by researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, could someday be an important tool […]
Jan 31, 2023
Around 12+ key companies are developing the Marburg Virus Disease Therapies | DelveInsight
Market screener – DelveInsight’s “Marburg Virus Disease Pipeline Insight” report provides comprehensive insights about 12+ companies and 12+ pipeline drugs in the Marburg Virus Disease pipeline landscapes. It comprises Marburg Virus Disease pipeline drug profiles, including clinical and non-clinical stage products. It also includes the Marburg Virus Disease therapeutics assessment by product type, stage, route […]
Oct 12, 2022