What To Know About The Ebola-Like Marburg Virus Amid False Alarm German Outbreak. ByRobert Hart, Former Staff . andArianna Johnson, Former Staff. Oct 03, 2024, 01:37pm EDT Oct 15, 2024, 08:22am EDT.

Marburg virus disease has killed 11 people and sickened 25 others in Rwanda, which declared an outbreak on Sept. 27. Similar to Ebola, the rare but very severe illness can be fatal in up to 88% of ...

Marburg—a virus in the same family as Ebola, which is typically spread by fruit bats and can spread from human-to-human through direct contact with bodily fluids—is highly virulent, ...

Health officials in Rwanda are dealing with the country’s first outbreak of the Marburg virus, an Ebola-like disease which, if left untreated, has a fatality rate of up to 88%.

And similar to Ebola, Marburg is a rare but often deadly hemorrhagic fever. It has a case-fatality rate between 23% and 90%, depending on the outbreak, with an average fatality rate of 50% .

Until this point, no licensed vaccines or treatments are available for Marburg. That was also the case with the Sudan strain of Ebola, which caused an outbreak in Uganda with 164 cases and more ...

The deadlier cousin of Ebola, Marburg virus has fueled outbreaks this year in Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania. Getty Images/Science Photo Library RF ...

CDC warns of Marburg virus outbreak in Africa. Fox News medical contributor Dr. Nicole Saphier says the Marburg virus is ‘similar’ to Ebola and that the World Health Organization has assigned ...

Marburg virus is a zoonotic virus that, along with the six species of Ebola virus, comprises the filovirus family, the CDC said. The rare virus was first identified in 1967 after it caused ...