The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has issued a public alert regarding the potential risk of a Marburg virus outbreak in Nigeria. Although no cases of the deadly virus ...

Rwanda is grappling with a rising wave of Marburg virus cases, as the country faces a severe outbreak of this deadly pathogen. The situation has escalated rapidly, prompting the World Health ...

Eleven people have died in Rwanda from the highly contagious Marburg virus, and 36 cases have been confirmed, the country's health ministry reported Tuesday, just days after the country declared ...

Amid reports of a deadly viral outbreak in Central Africa, researchers are reportedly scrambling to develop treatments and vaccines to combat the Marburg virus. As of Sept. 30, 2024, the country ...

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 ...

In response to the growing international concern, two individuals were isolated in Hamburg, Germany, after returning from Rwanda, where they had been in a medical facility with Marburg virus ...

For the first time in Rwanda’s history, its health ministry is dealing with an outbreak of Marburg virus disease, a rare but deadly hemorrhagic disease similar to Ebola – but unlike Ebola ...

(NEXSTAR) – Health officials in Rwanda are dealing with the country’s first outbreak of the Marburg virus, an Ebola-like disease which, if left untreated, has a fatality rate of up to 88%.

The Marburg Virus, which can have an 88 percent fatality rate, has now killed 11 people in Rwanda as the East African country continues to investigate the source of the outbreak. Currently ...

The Marburg virus disease, which is similar to Ebola, has killed hundreds of people in recent years, mostly in African nations. It is fatal for about half the people it infects according to data ...