Rwanda is dealing with its first-ever outbreak of the Marburg virus. It's related to Ebola and has a mortality rate as high ...

A similar vaccine, being developed at the University of Oxford, UK, was also named as a priority for testing during a Marburg ...

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Africa CDC, has confirmed that Rwanda is battling an outbreak of ...

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

WHO's Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus informed on the social media platform X that the World Health Organization ...

Rwanda says eight people have died so far from the Ebola-like and highly contagious Marburg virus, just days after the country declared an outbreak of the deadly hemorrhagic fever.

Twenty six cases of Marburg virus disease, which is related to Ebola, have been reported in Rwanda—the first in the country, sparking concern among African and international health authorities. The ...

Any outbreak of an epidemic is likely to cause panic in society and fear within the population - driven by a barrage of information shared across digital platforms, some of which are false, misleading ...

Five more people in Rwanda have died of the deadly Ebola-like Marburg disease, bringing the number of fatalities to 11, the ...

The World Health Organisation insists anyone exhibiting symptoms of Marburg virus - which can lead to bleeding from the eyes ...

While the global risk of Marburg virus disease is considered “low”, it can cause death through extreme blood loss.