Marburg virus disease has killed 11 people and sickened 25 others in Rwanda, which declared an outbreak on Sept. 27. Similar to Ebola, the rare but very severe illness can be fatal in up to 88% of ...

Officials confirmed that the medical student, who had been in Rwanda as part of their studies, showed no symptoms of the Marburg virus and tested negative through a PCR test. The student had come ...

Rwanda’s health minister says authorities are tracing every potential contact of the index case in the country’s outbreak of ...

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 ...

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

Marburg virus is one of the deadliest pathogens ever discovered and there are no treatments or vaccines yet approved which work to reverse or prevent it. It can cause sufferers to bleed from the ...

Rwanda is effectively managing a Marburg virus outbreak, with 1,146 contacts identified and only three active cases remaining ...

Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact with the bodily fluids of infected individuals or with surfaces, such as contaminated bed ...

(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%.

Rwanda is still grappling with its first outbreak of Marburg virus. A cousin to the Ebola virus, Marburg is one of the deadliest viruses known to science, with a fatality rate of about 88%.

Officials confirmed Wednesday suspected German cases of the deadly Marburg virus tested negative, following fears the ...

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 ...