Marburg disease,Rwanda Marburg disease Stories

Should a previously unknown pathogen be identified as the cause, health authorities will need to increase measures to contain the spread of the diseas...

Uganda this week confirmed an outbreak of the Ebola virus in the capital Kampala with the first confirmed patient dying from it.

Symptoms include severe cramping, bleeding after 5-6 days, and, in untreated cases, death within 9-10 days.

Rwanda has conducted nearly 3,000 tests for Marburg, identifying 58 confirmed cases, marking one of the largest outbreaks recorded.

With a fatality rate as high as 88 per cent, Marburg disease belongs to the same virus family as that responsible for Ebola and is transmitted to huma...

The majority of victims are health workers in the intensive care unit.

Symptoms include high fever, severe headache vomiting, muscle aches and stomach aches, the ministry said.