Rwanda faced a Marburg virus outbreak among health workers in the capital Kigali, challenging the nation's health system and ...

A technical team from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation (CEPI) is in Rwanda as part of the preparations for a study on Marburg virus immunity among recovered patients.Led by Rwanda ...

Ugandan authorities on Monday began a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola that has killed one ...

Organizations that provide vital care for desperate and vulnerable people around the world have been forced to halt ...

Uganda’s Ministry of Health has confirmed an Ebola outbreak in the capital, Kampala, following the death of a 32-year-old ...

Atul Gawande said that services for 6.5 million vulnerable children and caregivers in 23 countries have been already stopped, ...

a family that includes both Marburg and Ebola, also remains the largest in a high-income country: in 1967, a total of 31 people fell ill with MVD in Germany (including in the virus’s eponymous ...

Twenty-five other samples were negative, she said. Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact with the bodily fluids of infected ...

One “confirmed case of Marburg virus marks the second outbreak” in ... a suspected Marburg outbreak in Tanzania had killed eight people, assessing the risk at the national level as “high”.

The Marburg virus, a close relative of Ebola, is a deadly disease that causes haemorrhaging and has a high mortality rate. This virus has recently resurfaced in Tanzania, infecting nine people and ...

“Now is a time for collaboration, and commitment, to protecting the health of all people in Tanzania, and the region, from the risks posed by this disease.” Marburg virus disease is highly ...