News

In July 2024, 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.
NINE people have died in a new outbreak of an ‘eye-bleeding’ Ebola-like virus, global health chiefs have warned.Marburg, one of the deadliest pathogens ever discovered, has already infected ...
Marburg is an Ebola-like deadly virus with terrifying fatality rates. Just two years ago, a similar outbreak occurred in the same region.
Guinea today declared the end of the Marburg virus disease outbreak having recorded no new cases over the past 42 days—two incubation periods, or the time between infection and the onset of ...
In July 2024, 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.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) welcomed a declaration by Tanzania on the end of the deadly Marburg virus outbreak, saying on Thursday that close collaboration had been key to the response.
The virus was first detected in 1967 when a hemorrhagic fever broke out simultaneously in laboratories in Marburg and Frankfurt, Germany as well as Belgrade in Serbia.
News of this first-ever case of Marburg comes just over a month after an Ebola outbreak in Guinea, which was contained on June 19, according to WHO.
Marburg is an Ebola-like deadly virus with terrifying fatality rates. Just two years ago, a similar outbreak occurred in the same region.