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.

SEVEN people have tested positive and two have died from a highly contagious strain of Ebola in Uganda, as scientists race to ...

Ebola outbreak has been declared in Africa this week, with up to nine people already dead. Uganda reported an outbreak in the ...

The World Health Organisation notes that Marburg Virus Disease is rare but severe and often fatal in humans. In certain outbreaks, fatality rates have swung drastically from 24% to 88% in the past.

According to the World Health Organisation, the Marburg virus disease is a deadly disease which is highly virulent, can cause haemorrhagic fever and in some cases can also be fatal. It belongs to ...

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 ...

On Jan. 20, Tanzania declared an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus disease in Biharamulo District in the northwestern part of the country’s Kagera Region. The announcement comes after public ...

26 suspected cases were tested of which one came back positive for Marburg Virus. Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan confirmed on Monday that there was a new outbreak of the deadly Marburg ...

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 ...