The Ebola-related Marburg virus kills around half of those infected but has been fatal in up to 90 per cent of cases.

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

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

For the first time in Rwanda’s history, its health ministry is dealing with an outbreak of Marburg virus disease, a rare but ...

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

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

Six people have died in a major outbreak of Marburg disease in Rwanda, a viral hemorrhagic fever from the same family as Ebola ... to Rwanda to help curb the virus. Shipments of emergency medical ...

The Ministry of Health has launched a comprehensive Ebola preventive vaccination campaign to safeguard vulnerable populations against the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) after securing vaccines for ...

This week, the government launched an Ebola preventive vaccination campaign to safeguard vulnerable populations against the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). The ministry’s Director of Curative ...

UNMC's first Ebola patient ... in West Africa and more than 11,000 people died with the virus, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While working to provide care ...

Marburg disease, a viral hemorrhagic fever ... Marburg is from the same virus family as the one responsible for Ebola and is transmitted to people from fruit bats. It then spreads through contact ...

And the U.S. government’s Centers for Disease Control warned recently that ... As Professor Peter Piot, who first identified the Ebola virus in 1976, said in a recent interview with Der Spiegel ...