The Health Ministry has reported that 80 percent of the infected are health care professionals. By Sarah Hurtes and Arafat Mugabo Sarah Hurtes reported from Nairobi, Kenya, and Arafat Mugabo from ...

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 ...

Rwanda is fighting its first outbreak of the “highly virulent” Marburg virus which was first reported in late September. As of Thursday, 11 people were reported to have died of the virus in ...

LONDON, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Rwanda is battling its first-ever outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus, with 36 cases reported so far and 11 deaths. The World Health Organization said this week the risk ...

(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%.

Two people tested negative in Germany this week. By Annie Correal and April Rubin Rwanda is in the midst of an outbreak of Marburg virus disease, a hemorrhagic fever with a high fatality rate that ...

Eleven people have died in Rwanda from the highly contagious Marburg virus, and 36 cases have been confirmed, the country's health ministry reported Tuesday, just days after the country declared ...

Marburg virus is one of the deadliest pathogens ever discovered and there are no treatments or vaccines yet approved which work to reverse or prevent it. It can cause sufferers to bleed from the ...