Health officials in Rwanda are dealing with the country’s first outbreak of the Marburg virus, an Ebola-like disease which, ...

The East African country continues to investigate the source of the outbreak, first traced among patients in health ...

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

Rwanda declared an outbreak of the highly contagious Marburg virus​, a deadly hemorrhagic fever that has no authorized ...

Marburg virus is named after the town in Germany where it first emerged. In 1967, there were simultaneous outbreaks at ...

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 ...

A rare, highly contagious Ebola-like virus has claimed eight lives in Rwanda, and U.S. health officials are closely ...

Similar to Ebola, Marburg is a "rare but severe hemorrhagic fever" that can cause "serious illness and death," with a 20% to 90% fatality rate. There have not been any confirmed cases in the ...

“Marburg virus is a very severe infection. It’s found in Africa and it’s very similar to the Ebola virus,” explained Dr. Isaac Bogoch, an infectious diseases specialist at Toronto General ...