Deadly Marburg virus: scientists race to test vaccines in outbreak
A similar vaccine, being developed at the University of Oxford, UK, was also named as a priority for testing during a Marburg outbreak. Teresa Lambe, a vaccinologist at Oxford leading the Marburg vaccine’s development, says that the vaccine has so far proven safe in the handful of participants who have received it in an ongoing UK trial.
Rwanda is dealing with its first outbreak of deadly Marburg virus disease
For the first time in Rwanda’s history, its health ministry is dealing with an outbreak of Marburg virus disease, a rare but deadly hemorrhagic disease similar to Ebola – but unlike Ebola, there is no treatment or vaccines for Marburg,
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 ...
Twenty-six people in Rwanda have contracted Marburg disease, and eight of them have died, according to the CDC and Rwanda ...
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Rwanda’s Ministry of Health has announced new guidelines to curb the spread of the Marburg virus disease (MVD) following an ...
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