Rwanda faced a Marburg virus outbreak among health workers in the capital Kigali, challenging the nation's health system and ...

Transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of the Marburg virus. Marburg virus, first recognized in ... [+] 1967, causes a severe type of hemorrhagic fever, which affects humans, as well as non-human ...

NINE people have died in an outbreak of an eye-bleeding disease in Tanzania, Africa’s health agency has announced. This ...

Marburg virus disease or MVD is a highly transmissible and infectious virus that comes from the the same family as the Ebola virus. First discovered in 1967 in parts of Marburg and Frankfurt ...

Tanzania's president said a sample tested positive for the Marburg virus, which has a fatality rate of up to 88 percent if untreated.

Marburg Virus Disease is a highly contagious viral ... treatment centers to prevent further transmission. The WHO explained that zoonotic reservoirs, such as fruit bats, remain endemic to the ...

Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads ... to get on a plane and fly anywhere in the world," he explained. The incubation period of a virus is the time between ...

Staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been told to halt all communication with the World Health ...

KAGERA Regional Commissioner Fatma Mwasa has urged journalists to serve as effective ambassadors in educating the public ...

Fatma Mwassa has urged the media to educate the public on the Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) and avoid misbeliefs that ...

Marburg virus disease is classified as highly virulent and can lead to severe haemorrhagic fever. It is explained that the early symptoms include a sudden onset of high fever, severe headaches ...