A low-cost genome sequencing technique that was used by thousands of laboratories globally to spot COVID-19 variants of concern will now be extended to cover all pathogens, known or unknown, in an ...

Health Deadly outbreak of Marburg, or ‘bleeding eye virus,’ leads to travel advisory Get the latest update on the Ebola-like virus, which has infected dozens and killed 15 in Rwanda ...

This article was updated on Oct. 24, 2024, to correct that it's very likely the first human Marburg virus disease case in the current outbreak was a 27-year-old man, instead of it being certain ...

Rwanda is facing its first ever Marburg virus outbreak. Beginning in late September, 62 cases and 15 deaths had been reported by 17 October, mostly among healthcare workers in Kigali, the capital ...

Initial findings of genomic analysis indicates that the Marburg virus, which caused an outbreak in Rwanda, has "a single zoonotic origin," meaning it jumped from an animal to a human only once and ...

A deadly, Ebola-like virus called Marburg is currently causing an outbreak in Rwanda. The country declared an outbreak of Marburg virus disease on Sept. 27 and has reported 58 confirmed cases and ...

Marburg virus has killed 12 people in the latest outbreak, but a new vaccine is now to hand.

Marburg virus has demonstrated the ability to resurface in the past few years in new and unexpected places. In 2023 alone, Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania experienced their first-ever outbreaks of ...

Rwanda’s fragile health care system could become overwhelmed by the deadly Marburg virus, doctors fear, because most of those currently infected are medical professionals, and some have already ...

Marburg virus disease has killed 11 people and sickened 25 others in Rwanda, which declared an outbreak on Sept. 27. Similar to Ebola, the rare but very severe illness can be fatal in up to 88% of ...

However, the risk of it spreading beyond Rwanda is significant given the virus' long incubation period. "The incubation period for Marburg is anything up to three weeks," Whitworth said.