This highly lethal virus, a cousin of Ebola, is striking the country for the first time. Rwanda has received, in three weeks, ...

Rwanda’s health minister said Sunday that an outbreak of the Marburg virus is not spreading in the country, citing the absence of new infections or deaths in the past six days. Sabin Nsanzimana told ...

MARBURG virus had killed 12 people in Rwanda as of early October, touching off the nation’s first confirmed outbreak of the ...

No vaccines have yet received emergency use listing, but authorities hope to distribute doses as part of clinical trials. Paul Adepoju reports.

On September 27, 2024, the Republic of Rwanda's Ministry of Health reported cases of Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) in seven districts around the country and declared an outbreak. As of October 6, 2024, ...

Marburg Virus Outbreak: In the last few weeks, Rwanda has witnessed a sharp rise in the number of cases associated with one of the deadliest viruses in the world - the Marburg virus. This highly ...

Ebola-like Marburg virus linked to 8 deaths in Rwanda Marburg has a fatality rate as high as 88 per cent. Marburg symptoms include high fever, severe headaches and malaise within seven days of ...

Rwanda is trialling vaccine doses against the Marburg virus as authorities work to end an outbreak of the deadly ... The single-dose vaccine is currently in phase two trials in Uganda and Kenya ...

The Marburg ... virus Most of the victims of the current outbreak were healthcare workers in a hospital intensive care unit, Rwanda’s health minister has confirmed. In a statement at the end ...

The Marburg virus disease, which is similar to Ebola ... In a statement at the end of September, the ministry said it was “closely monitoring the situation” with investigations underway ...