What are the symptoms of Lassa fever and how is it spread?
This blog post summarises the key points about Lassa fever and what UKHSA does when a case of an infectious disease such as Lassa fever is identified in the UK.
Marburg virus disease: what you need to know
This blog post was reviewed and updated in January 2025. Marburg virus belongs to the filovirus family, along with Ebola. It can cause Marburg virus disease, a haemorrhagic fever, which can damage blood vessels and cause bleeding, and its presentation …
Driving forward infectious disease genomics
Posted by:
Christine McCartney, Posted on:
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Categories:
Microbiology services, Protecting the country's health
...bioinformatic capabilities to manage, store and share this data and to link them effectively to clinical and epidemiological datasets. We also have to accept that this is a rapidly moving...