Disease

What Is Marburg Virus? Eight Killed In Suspected Outbreak In Tanzania Nine cases of the deadly disease have been reported in the Kagera region of Tanzania so far. But officials expect that number to rise. Katherine Hignett Forbes

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Forgotten but not gone: COVID keeps killing, five years on Five years since COVID-19 started upending the world, the virus is still infecting and killing people across the globe—though at far lower levels than at the height of the pandemic. Medical Xpress

...Around 777 million COVID cases and more than seven million deaths have been officially recorded since the first infections emerged in December 2019, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

However, the true toll is believed to be far higher.

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As 1st bird flu death reported in US, what could happen with virus in 2025? The CDC says the risk of bird flu to the general public is low, but public health experts say they are worried the virus could mutate and become more transmissible. ABC News ABC News

...public health experts say they are worried the virus could mutate and become more transmissible, amplifying the need to ramp up testing and to stockpile vaccines.