Marburg virus is a zoonotic virus that, along with the six species of Ebola virus, comprises the filovirus family, the CDC said. The rare virus was first identified in 1967 after it caused ...

Marburg killed 90% of 252 infected people in a 2004 outbreak in Angola. Last year, there were two reported Marburg deaths in Ghana. The rare virus was first identified in 1967 after it caused ...

WHO convenes 'urgent' meeting over outbreak of Marburg virus — one of the world's deadliest diseases that kills 90% of patients and has no cure The WHO convened a panel of experts to discuss how ...

On average, the Marburg virus kills half of the people it infects, according to the WHO. In March 2023, Tanzania's Bukoba district experienced its first Marburg virus outbreak, which killed about ...

Marburg virus treatment. There is no cure or specific treatment for Marburg disease, the CDC said. Still, “Early supportive care with rehydration, and symptomatic treatment improves survival ...

Without treatment, Marburg can be fatal in up to 88 per cent of people. A 2004-05 outbreak in Angola killed 90 per cent of the 252 confirmed cases. Here is what you need to know about this rare ...

Marburg is not a new disease — it was detected in 1967 after simultaneous outbreaks in Germany and Serbia. Numerous outbreaks have occurred since, including in Uganda, Democratic Republic of the ...

“Marburg is highly infectious,” Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, the WHO Regional Director for Africa, previously said. “Thanks to the rapid and decisive action by the Equatorial Guinean authorities ...

Marburg and Ebola represent a significant risk, to be sure, but they are known threats. Next time, we could be facing an unknown pathogen that a country may not even acknowledge, ...

Marburg was first identified in 1967 among lab workers in Marburg, Germany, and Belgrade, in what is now Serbia. They were exposed to the virus during research with monkeys or tissue samples of ...

Marburg outbreaks and individual cases have in the past been recorded in Tanzania, Equatorial Guinea, Angola, Congo, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda and Ghana.

WHO said it had informed its member states of an outbreak of suspected Marburg Virus Disease, MVD, in the Kagera region of Tanzania. The Director-General the UN health agency, Tedros Adhanom ...