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%.

Like Ebola, the Marburg virus is believed to originate in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact with the bodily fluids of infected individuals or with surfaces, such as ...

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 ...

This year’s outbreak of Marburg virus disease, closely related to Ebola, was first reported in Equatorial Guinea in February, involving a cluster of deaths suspected to be caused by a viral ...

Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in bats and spreads between people via close contact with the bodily fluids of infected people, or surfaces, like contaminated bed sheets.

There have been a number of Marburg virus disease outbreaks since then, notably in Angola during 2004-2005 and the Democratic Republic of Congo during 1998-2000, which killed hundreds of people.

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 ...

Fox News medical contributor Dr. Nicole Saphier says the Marburg virus is ‘similar’ to Ebola and that the World Health Organization has assigned it a 50% mortality rate.

Key Background Marburg was first detected in 1967 in Germany and the former Yugoslavia, with 31 cases—and seven deaths—primarily linked to lab monkeys. Small outbreaks were detected in the ...

Outbreak of Marburg, Ebola’s similarly deadly relative, spurs response race Nine people have already died, making it the deadliest outbreak in over a decade.

The most recent outbreak of the Marburg virus, a disease similar in nature to Ebola, has claimed its first infant victim, according to a new report. The West African nation of Ghana is currently ...

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%.