Tanzania’s president said Monday that one sample from a remote part of northern Tanzania tested positive for Marburg disease, a highly infectious virus which can be fatal in up to 88% of cases without ...

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.

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 ...

Global health chiefs have raised an alarm after nine people d!ed in a new outbreak of an 'eye-bleeding' Ebola-like virus.

An untreatable Ebola-like virus is on the rise in Tanzania, global health chiefs have warned. Marburg, one of the deadliest pathogens ever discovered, has already infected nine people ...

The virus's historical trajectory tells a troubling story. When first discovered in 1967 in Marburg, Germany, the case fatality rate was approximately 23 per cent. However, modern outbreaks in ...

Ebola, which is spread by contact with bodily fluids of an infected person or contaminated materials, manifests as a deadly ...

More recently, a filovirus outbreak caused by Marburg virus began last September in ... As new ebolaviruses and variants are discovered, scientists can also use this method to assess their ...