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.

A laboratory holding Ebola and other dangerous pathogens in the eastern DR Congo city of Goma—which has been seized by the ...

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

A POTENTIAL new outbreak of Ebola has sickened at least 12 people and killed eight in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It ...

A new outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus has gripped Tanzania, in the African subcontinent claiming at least eight lives. The outbreak was reported from north-western Kagera region after one ...

Marburg virus disease or MVD is a highly transmissible and infectious virus that comes from the the same family as the Ebola virus. First discovered in 1967 in parts of Marburg and Frankfurt ...

About 50% of the people who get Marburg virus disease die. No approved vaccines or therapeutics for Marburg virus disease exist. But last year, during an outbreak in Rwanda, the country deployed ...

26 suspected cases were tested of which one came back positive for Marburg Virus. Tanzania's President ... outbreak in neighbouring Rwanda, which killed 15 people. Marburg causes a highly ...

In October 2024, Ugandan officials said the country was on high alert to prevent the spread of Marburg virus disease (MVD ... October 2024 following an MVD outbreak in Rwanda the month before. At ...

In the East African country of Rwanda ... 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 ...