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An outbreak of Marburg virus in Equatorial Guinea was confirmed by the WHO. Here's what to know about the disease's symptoms and treatment.
Marburg virus disease causes people to quickly develop severe illness and fever, which could lead to shock or death. Learn more about the causes, symptoms, and treatment of this illness.
Marburg virus is transmitted to people directly from fruit bats, through infected non-human primates that handled body fluids, and from infected humans or those who have died from the disease.
The WHO has confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Marburg Virus Disease in Ghana. Here's what to know about the Ebola relative from symptoms to spread.
There are two outbreaks of the Marburg virus across Africa. Our medical analyst explains what’s known about this virus.
Four people infected with the virus have died in Ghana, experts said. The disease’s fatality rate is high. By April Rubin Ghana announced the country’s first outbreak of Marburg virus disease ...
Marburg virus causes severe viral hemorrhagic fever and 24% to 88% of people who contracted the disease in different outbreaks died.
Marburg virus disease has killed 11 people and sickened 25 others in Rwanda, which declared an outbreak on Sept. 27.
Tanzania has announced its first-ever cases of Marburg virus disease, a deadly infection that has a fatality rate of around 50 percent.
What are the symptoms of Marburg virus disease? Marburg can cause severe viral hemorrhagic fever, which interferes with the blood’s ability to clot.