Marburg has caused small, episodic outbreaks since first being identified, most recently last year in Tanzania and Ghana. It ...

Rwanda has said it will begin vaccine trials for the fatal Marburg virus, which has already killed at least 12 people in the ...

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

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

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

Most infected are health care workers treating patients in the capital, but officials fear more cases will emerge ...

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

An outbreak of Marburg, a contagious virus similar to Ebola, has impacted Rwanda and is causing concern of international ...

Rwanda says eight people have died so far from the Ebola-like and highly contagious Marburg virus, just days after the ...

The deadly Marburg virus is believed to originate in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact.

The risk of catching Marburg virus is described as “extremely low” by the NHS. Symptoms can typically take three to 10 days to materialise, but in some patients can take up to 21 days from the date of ...

Rwanda faces its first Marburg virus outbreak, with 11 reported deaths. The government plans to conduct vaccine trials.