Deadly Marburg virus found in Tanzania - why is it so fatal?
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Marburg Bat Virus With 88% Fatality Rate Has Spread to Another Country
Tanzania's president said a sample tested positive for the Marburg virus, which has a fatality rate of up to 88 percent if ...
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Biden commutes federal death sentence of 7 connected to Virginia
Another of Monday’s commutations to life in prison involved a case tried in Abingdon, where a jury in 2007 sentenced Carlos Caro to death following a three-week trial. Caro was convicted of ...
How deadly is bird flu in humans? What we know as US confirms first death
The U.S. has reported its first death due to bird flu, aka H5N1. How deadly is H5N1? Experts discuss bird flu fatality rate ...
10 years later: A missing Meskwaki woman's family says they're hopeful despite a decade without answers
Thursday marked 10 years since 41-year-old Rita Papakee was last seen near the Meskwaki Casino in Tama. The Meskwaki Nation ...
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Q&A: Cause of DRC outbreak identified as combination of malaria, flu and malnutrition
In early December, health officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or DRC, announced that an unknown illness had ...
‘We can’t forget the girls behind her’: Indigenous family fights for justice after daughter’s death
Sixteen-year-old Selena Not Afraid vanished on the way home from a New Year’s party in 2020. Now a man has been charged in ...
Harvard study suggests tactic for U.S. jails to reduce inmate deaths
County jails may be able to improve access to medical care and lower death rates behind bars through healthcare accreditation ...
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America’s first bird flu death reported in Louisiana
That would give the virus a 50% case fatality rate, making it extraordinarily lethal – but experts don’t actually think it kills half the people it infects. Because severe cases are more ...
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First US bird flu death recorded in Louisiana as outbreak spreads
Bird flu has claimed its first human death in the US. A Louisiana patient died from a severe case of the H5N1 avian influenza, state health officials reported on Monday. The patient, who was over ...