Rwanda faced a Marburg virus outbreak among health workers in the capital Kigali, challenging the nation’s health system and testing its pandemic response capabilities.

Storyline: The Tanzanian government is taking decisive action to combat the resurgence of Marburg virus disease (MVD), ...

A technical team from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation (CEPI) is in Rwanda as part of the preparations for a study on Marburg virus immunity among recovered patients.Led by Rwanda ...

The Trump administration is limiting the nation’s ability to respond to infectious disease as Marburg, Ebola rise ...

Ugandan authorities on Monday began a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola that has killed one person in the outbreak declared last week.

Uganda has had access to candidate vaccine doses since the end of an Ebola outbreak in September 2022 that killed at least 55 ...

The World Health Organisation notes that Marburg Virus Disease is rare but severe ... organs or other bodily fluids of infected people as well as contaminated surfaces and materials like clothing.

Additionally, 25 people with suspected infections whose test results were later negative for Marburg virus are being closely monitored. This is the second Marburg virus disease outbreak in Tanzania.

One "confirmed case of Marburg virus marks the second outbreak" in Tanzania ... suspected Marburg outbreak in Tanzania had killed eight people, assessing the risk at the national level as "high".

a family that includes both Marburg and Ebola, also remains the largest in a high-income country: in 1967, a total of 31 people fell ill with MVD in Germany (including in the virus’s eponymous ...

Twenty-five other samples were negative, she said. Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact with the bodily fluids of infected ...