At least six people have died in Rwanda's first-ever outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus. Sabin Nsanzimana, the country's ...

Humans are not the only mammals that love sugar. Fruit bats do, too, eating up to twice their body weight in sugary fruit a day. However, unlike humans, fruit bats thrive on a sugar-rich diet.

A deadly, Ebola-like virus called Marburg is currently causing an outbreak in Rwanda. The country declared an outbreak of ...

Pandemonium took over a railway station in Germany this week that led to a shut down after passengers displayed symptoms of a ...

Rwanda has begun the world's first clinical trial for a treatment of the Ebola-like Marburg virus, which has killed more than ...

On Sept 27, 2024, Rwanda's Ministry of Health confirmed the nation's first-ever outbreak of Marburg virus disease. As of Oct 14, 2024, there have been 62 reported cases and 15 deaths from the virus, ...

Fruit bats generate more diverse antibodies than ... While these viruses typically do not cause disease in bats, they can prove deadly in humans. Spillover events -- transmission of a virus ...

“Fruit bats have honed their insulin-signaling pathway ... of novel therapeutics for a variety of metabolic diseases in humans,” Ahituv said.

Some tropical fruit bats carry seeds inside them ... damage and have catastrophic flow-on effects for ecosystems that humans rely on," says Douglas MacFarlane of the University of Cambridge.

Fruit and sometimes insects also supplement their diet ... there is not one documented case of a human contracting the disease this way. Bat bites of humans are uncommon and rabies in humans resulting ...

Fruit bats generate more diverse antibodies than ... While these viruses typically do not cause disease in bats, they can prove deadly in humans. Spillover events—transmission of a virus from ...