Health officials in Rwanda are dealing with the country’s first outbreak of the Marburg virus, an Ebola-like disease which, ...

Rwanda declared an outbreak of the highly contagious Marburg virus​, a deadly hemorrhagic fever that has no authorized ...

The East African country continues to investigate the source of the outbreak, first traced among patients in health ...

There are no treatments or vaccines approved for Marburg, a virus in the same family as Ebola with a fatality rate between 24 ...

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

Marburg virus is named after the town in Germany where it first emerged. In 1967, there were simultaneous outbreaks at ...

In Rwanda, 11 deaths have been reported from this rare but deadly disease. Two people tested negative in Germany this week.

(NEXSTAR) – Health officials in Rwanda are dealing with the country’s first outbreak of the Marburg virus, an Ebola-like disease which, if left untreated, has a fatality rate of up to 88%.