There have not been any cases in Canada. As long as precautions are taken, there is low risk of contracting Marburg virus disease in a country where the disease is present.

Anyone can contract the virus as it is highly contagious. Even though it is commonly called other names like the “stomach bug” and “stomach flu” it is not related to the influenza virus ...

The US Food and Drug Administration is proposing limits on the level of nicotine in cigarettes and some other types of tobacco products in order to make them less addictive, the agency announced ...

It’s notoriously infectious. While infected with norovirus, people shed billions of virus particles, but it only takes a couple of particles to infect someone. Unfortunately, hand sanitizer doesn’t ...

Transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of the Marburg virus. Marburg virus, first recognized in ... [+] 1967, causes a severe type of hemorrhagic fever, which affects humans, as well as non-human ...

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday unveiled a proposed rule that would make tobacco companies slash nicotine levels in cigarettes, most cigars and other combustible tobacco products ...

The move could make cigarettes less addictive and easier to quit, the FDA said. The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday proposed a new rule limiting nicotine levels in cigarettes and other ...

The proposal would set a level of 0.7 milligrams of nicotine per gram of tobacco for cigarettes, most cigars, and pipe tobacco, compared to an average nicotine level of 17.2 mg in popular ...

Victoria's health department is urging people in the state's north to remain vigilant against mosquitoes, following recent detections of Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV). JEV is a rare virus that ...

NAIROBI, Jan 15 (Reuters) - A suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus in northwest Tanzania has infected nine people, killing eight of them, the World Health Organization has said, weeks after an ...

The NHS could be put under yet more pressure as cases of a globally spreading virus rise. Health leaders are warning the public to limit their contact with other people if they show symptoms and ...

But medical experts say the human metapneumovirus, known as HMPV, is no COVID-19. “That’s a routine virus that commonly causes upper respiratory tract infections, such as bronchitis that might ...