What is the Marburg virus and where did it come from? Marburg virus causes the Marburg Virus Disease (MVD), formerly known as Marburg haemorrhagic fever. The virus, which belongs to the same family as ...

Oyewale Tomori is a virologist and fellow at the Nigerian Academy of Science. Marburg virus causes the Marburg Virus Disease, formerly known as Marburg hemorrhagic fever. The virus, which belongs to ...

There's significant progress being made on vaccines to fight the deadly Marburg and Ebola viruses. Vaccines would be invaluable in fighting the diseases in Africa, where 350 people in Angola alone ...

(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%. The ...

Over the past decades, research on Ebola and Marburg viruses has grown increasingly vital due to the severe, often fatal, nature of these haemorrhagic fevers and their potential for causing epidemics.

The World Health Organization confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus disease in the central African country of Equatorial Guinea on Feb. 13, 2023. To date, there have been 11 deaths ...

Scientists share detailed, complete images of a viral structure called the Ebola virus nucleocapsid. This breakthrough may accelerate the development of antivirals that target this viral structure to ...

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 an ...

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 ...

Health authorities in Equatorial Guinea detected the west African country’s first cases of the rare but highly-infectious Marburg virus, the World Health Organization confirmed on Monday, months after ...

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, there are ...