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.

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Staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been told to halt all communication with the World Health ...

Marburg has been flagged by the WHO ... and it can be fatal in up to 90 per cent of people infected The virus is highly infectious spreading among humans through direct contact with bodily ...

Ebola virus and Marburg virus are single-stranded, enveloped and negative sense-RNA viruses belonging to the Filoviridae family, and they both cause deadly hemorrhagic fevers in humans and mammals.

The World Health Organisation notes that Marburg Virus Disease is rare but severe and often fatal in humans. In certain outbreaks, fatality rates have swung drastically from 24% to 88% in the past.