Health officials in Rwanda are dealing with the country’s first outbreak of the Marburg virus, an Ebola-like disease which, ...

Rwanda declared an outbreak of the highly contagious Marburg virus​, a deadly hemorrhagic fever that has no authorized ...

The East African country continues to investigate the source of the outbreak, first traced among patients in health ...

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

Kigali, RWANDA -- Rwanda says eight people have died so far from the Ebola-like and highly contagious Marburg virus, just ...

The deadly Marburg virus is believed to originate in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact.

There are no treatments or vaccines approved for Marburg, a virus in the same family as Ebola with a fatality rate between 24 ...

In Rwanda, 11 deaths have been reported from this rare but deadly disease. Two people tested negative in Germany this week.

KIGALI, Rwanda — Rwandan health authorities will begin a vaccine study against the Marburg hemorrhagic fever, officials said ...

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 ...

TUESDAY, Oct. 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- A rare, highly contagious Ebola-like virus has claimed eight lives in Rwanda, and U ...