In July 2024, Rwanda faced a Marburg virus outbreak among health workers in the capital Kigali, challenging the nation's health system and testing its pandemic response capabilities. For Rwanda, it ...

BUKOBA: IN efforts to control the spread of Marburg Virus Disease (MVD), radio presenters from 14 stations based in the Lake ...

Marburg virus disease is like its close cousin Ebola, but worse. It can have a mortality rate as high as 80% and, unlike at least one strain of Ebola, we do not have an approved vaccine or ...

What we didn’t expect was the fear and uncertainty of a Marburg virus outbreak in Tanzania several hundred miles from her ...

Since the country officially announced the outbreak last week, ten people have tested positive for Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease similar to Ebola. Of these, nine have died ...

Experts say the Marburg virus has no evolutionary or scientific link proteins in snake venoms and is unlikely to spread globally. Marburg virus disease, a severe hemorrhagic fever that has a high ...

A tin mine in Kigali has been identified as the source of Rwanda’s first Marburg virus outbreak, which killed 15 people and ...

Tanzania is grappling with another outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus, which has claimed at least eight lives in the north-western Kagera region. The confirmation came after a laboratory in ...

Marburg virus belongs to the genus Marburgvirus in the family Filoviridae and causes a severe hemorrhagic fever, known as Marburg hemorrhagic fever (MHF), in both humans and nonhuman primates.

WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) has donated essential medical equipment worth $30,000 (78m/-) to help combat the Marburg ...

The Ministry of Health has intensified surveillance and screening at all 26 ports of entry into the country in the wake of ...