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), ...

The ongoing Marburg outbreak in northern Tanzania’s Kagera region ... Ebola is spread by contact with bodily fluids of an infected person or contaminated materials. Symptoms include fever, vomiting, ...

In addition to the possible Ebola outbreak, there is an outbreak of Marburg fever, caused by a related virus, in Tanzania, which shares a border with eastern DRC.

Marburg causes a highly infectious haemorrhagic fever. It is transmitted from fruit bats and belongs to the same family of viruses as Ebola. With a fatality rate that can reach close to 90 percent ...

Victims had presented with typical Marburg symptoms, including headache, high fever, back pain, diarrhoea, vomiting blood, muscle weakness and external bleeding. The viral hemorrhagic fever has a ...

Marburg causes a highly infectious haemorrhagic fever. It is transmitted from fruit bats and belongs to the same family of viruses as ebola. With a fatality rate that can reach close to 90 per ...