Tsion Firew had just finished running a first aid training when she glanced down at her phone — and then looked up confused. The message she saw was about a colleague Firew had worked with a few days ...

I want to tell you about a doctor who was in Rwanda helping patients during the country's first Marburg outbreak. This was one year ago. The virus is a cousin to Ebola. It's nasty and deadly, and more ...

The UK Government has issued warnings about an untreatable Ebola-like virus — which kills up to nine in 10 people it infects — that is currently spreading in Africa. Marburg, one of the deadliest ...

A year ago, Rwanda faced its first outbreak of Marburg virus. Dr. Tsion Firew remembers how scared she was — and how that didn't stop her from playing a key role in the remarkably effective response.

It had set up testing right away, same with isolation wards. It started a clinical trial for a Marburg vaccine within 10 days, and Firew had an idea to do something that had never been tried before - ...