Officials confirmed Wednesday suspected German cases of the deadly Marburg virus tested negative, following fears the Ebola-like virus spread to the European country, as experts in several African ...

Marburg virus had killed 12 people in Rwanda as of early October, touching off the nation’s first confirmed outbreak of the highly virulent disease that can have a fatality rate of close to 90%. From ...

The Ebola-related Marburg virus kills around half of those infected but has been fatal in up to 90 per cent of cases.

Rwanda’s health minister said Sunday that an outbreak of the Marburg virus is not spreading in the country, citing the ...

Some people have contracted the Marburg virus after coming in contact with ... 2023 when the World Health Organization said Equatorial Guinea had confirmed its first outbreak of Marburg disease ...

The UK Government has issued warnings about an untreatable Ebola-like virus — which kills up ... approaching the scale of the 2023 Equatorial Guinea one in which saw 40 cases, of which 35 ...

Marburg virus is named after the town in Germany where it first emerged. In 1967, there were simultaneous outbreaks at ...

There is currently no approved vaccine or antiviral treatment for Marburg virus, making it a critical public health threat. Last year, outbreaks in Tanzania and Equatorial Guinea resulted in ...

Marburg is "difficult to catch," Siegel noted, as it requires close contact with bodily secretions. The virus is spread ... which is found in both Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania, per the CDC.

A cousin to the Ebola virus, Marburg is one of the deadliest viruses ... Last year alone, Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania both dealt with Marburg outbreaks, as well as Ghana in 2022.

Amid reports of a deadly viral outbreak in Central Africa, researchers are reportedly scrambling to develop treatments and ...

The Marburg virus has ... In 2021, Guinea reported West Africa’s first case. In 2022, Ghana had its own outbreak, followed by Tanzania and Equatorial Guinea in 2023. Now, with Rwanda facing ...