Three infectious diseases experts with the University of Nebraska Medical Center's Global Center for Health Security have ...

Everything you need to know about Rwanda's outbreak of Marburg virus, which has been described as one of the deadliest human pathogens ...

Rwandan Minister of health Sabin Nsanzimana made the remarks during a virtual weekly media briefing on the multi-country mpox ...

Marburg Virus Outbreak In Rwanda: "Marburg virus in Rwanda is over," Health Minister Sabin Nsanzimana said during a press ...

More than 1,600 people have been vaccinated against the Marburg virus disease in Rwanda, including those at high risk.

Like Ebola, the Marburg virus is believed to originate in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact with the bodily fluids of infected individuals or with surfaces, such as ...

The Marburg virus belongs to the filovirus family, whose best-known representative is the Ebola virus, which notably raged in West Africa between 2014 and 2016, causing the death of more than ...

Marburg is transmitted to humans from fruit bats, and is part of the filovirus family that includes Ebola. With a fatality rate of up to 88 percent, Marburg's highly infectious hemorrhagic fever ...

Lassa fever is much less likely to be fatal than other viral hemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola or Marburg virus; an outbreak of Marburg virus in Rwanda has infected 65 people and resulted in 15 deaths.