In the East African country of Rwanda, however, a courageous, unified, and successful response to the global threat posed by a major outbreak of Marburg virus disease (MVD) offers reason for hope ...

Rwanda's outbreak of the Marburg virus was declared over this week by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Rwandan government. The announcement by WHO comes after weeks without any new ...

further testing had verified the presence of the virus. This marks the second Marburg outbreak in Tanzania's Kagera region since 2023. The region is near the border with Rwanda where an outbreak of ...

KIGALI, Rwanda — (AP ... cycles of the virus — elapsed without registering new cases and all existing cases test negative. Rwanda discharged the last Marburg patient on Nov. 8 and had ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Kigali, Dec 20 (IANS) Rwanda on Friday announced the end of the Marburg virus disease outbreak, initially declared on September 27. Rwanda recorded its last confirmed case on ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a Level 3 travel advisory for Rwanda due to an outbreak of the Marburg virus. Marburg virus disease, or MVD, is a serious, often fatal ...

Rwanda’s outbreak of Marburg Virus Disease – one of the deadliest infections known to humanity, with a case fatality rate of up to 80 percent – has been declared over. It was at the end of ...

Similar to Ebola, the Marburg virus is believed to originate in fruit bats. Ben Birchall/PA Wire/AP In 2023, an outbreak in Kagera, a region of Tanzania bordering Rwanda, claimed at least five lives.

The WHO considers the regional risk from Marburg virus disease to be high because Kagera is a transport hub. Officials are concerned that it could spread to nearby countries, including Rwanda ...