Rwanda's Marburg Virus Outbreak Declared Over

Rwanda's outbreak of the Marburg virus was declared over this week by the World Health Organization ( WHO) and the Rwandan ...
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How to Survive the Top 5 Most Deadly Viruses

You called in sick yesterday because you thought you had the flu, but today you feel even worse. You have heavy bleeding and delirium because you’ve got one of the world’s most deadly viruses. What ...
Medscape

Clinical Aspects of Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever

Marburg virus belongs to the genus Marburgvirus in the family Filoviridae and causes a severe hemorrhagic fever, known as Marburg hemorrhagic fever (MHF), in both humans and nonhuman primates. Similar ...
Jefferson Public Radio

A bold doctor sent her kids away and helped beat one of the world's deadliest viruses

A year ago, Rwanda faced its first outbreak of Marburg virus. Dr. Tsion Firew remembers how scared she was — and how that ...
WYSO Public Radio

This doctor was part of Rwanda's heroic effort to quash a very deadly virus

Dr. Tsion Firew, an emergency physician in Kigali, recalls the terrifying early days of Rwanda's Marburg outbreak and how she ...