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.

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 ...

Marburg is an Ebola-like deadly virus with terrifying fatality rates. Just two years ago, a similar outbreak occurred in the same region.

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.

Marburg is an Ebola-like deadly virus with terrifying fatality rates. Just two years ago, a similar outbreak occurred in the same region.

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.

An effort to curb Tanzania’s second outbreak of Marburg virus disease in almost two years includes enhanced case detection, treatment centres, and a mobile laboratory in the northwestern Kagera ...

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.