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

At this moment, the world has few tools to combat deadly filoviruses, such as Ebola and Marburg viruses. The only approved vaccine and antibody treatments protect against just one filovirus species.

There are no treatments or vaccines approved for Marburg, a virus in the same family as Ebola with a fatality rate between 24% to 88%.

Marburg was previously reported in Guinea in 2021, and the last major outbreak of the virus was in Angola in 2005.

At least 9 people have died from the Ebola-like hemorrhagic fever in Equatorial Guinea's first known outbreak of the disease, according to the WHO.

Similar to Ebola, Marburg virus disease is a rare but very severe illness that can be fatal in up to 88% of people who become sick.

Marburg virus causes severe viral hemorrhagic fever and 24% to 88% of people who contracted the disease in different outbreaks died.

Nine people in Equatorial Guinea died of a viral fever this month, linked to the highly contagious and incredibly deadly Marburg virus.

Marburg virus disease affects both people and non-human primates, and is caused by a genetically unique animal-borne RNA virus of the filovirus family (the same family as the Ebola virus).

There are no treatments or vaccines approved for Marburg, a virus in the same family as Ebola with a fatality rate between 24% to 88%.

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