What Is the Marburg Virus? The Marburg virus, while rare, is known to cause severe hemorrhagic fever and has a high mortality rate of up to 88 percent.

Experts are sounding alarm bells after a deadly virus outbreak in Africa. The Marburg virus has already claimed the lives of nine people in Equatorial Guinea as of Tuesday, prompting the World ...

An outbreak of Marburg virus in Equatorial Guinea was confirmed by the WHO. Here's what to know about the disease's symptoms and treatment.

In Rwanda, Marburg virus disease has resulted in six fatalities, mainly among healthcare workers. The virus, which causes hemorrhagic fever, spreads through contact with bodily fluids. Authorities ...

Marburg is probably a bat virus that occasionally makes the jump to humans. Its name comes from a town in Germany where several laboratory workers got sick in 1967.

Amid reports of a deadly viral outbreak in Central Africa, researchers are reportedly scrambling to develop treatments and vaccines to combat Marburg virus.

Marburg virus disease has killed 11 people and sickened 25 others in Rwanda, which declared an outbreak on Sept. 27.

Rwanda's fragile health care system could become overwhelmed by the deadly Marburg virus, doctors fear, because most of those currently infected are medical professionals, and some have died.

There are no treatments or vaccines approved for Marburg, a virus in the same family as Ebola with a fatality rate between 24% to 88%.

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%.

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%.