Imagine a virus so lethal that up to 90% of those infected don’t survive. That’s Marburg - a rare but extremely dangerous disease with no known cure. In this video, we explore its history, how it ...

Scientists have discovered 20 new bat viruses in China, including strains related to Nipah and Hendra, raising global health ...

A global consortium led by Adaptvac ApS aims to design and test a new vaccine that could offer broad protection against several filoviruses, including Zaire ebolavirus, Sudan ebolavirus and Marburg ...

By Gift BritonScientists are developing a single vaccine to protect against three deadly viruses that regularly strike Africa: Ebola Zaire, Sudan Ebola virus, and Marburg virus.These viruses cause ...

Researchers at Wageningen University & Research (WUR) are contributing to the development of a new vaccine designed to provide broad protection ...

An outbreak of Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) in Rwanda has officially been declared over by the Government of Rwanda, with no new cases recorded since the last patient tested negative on 7 November ...

There is a remarkable story behind the way in which a lower-middle-income country, Rwanda, managed to contain an outbreak of one of the world’s most feared pathogens, the Marburg virus.

In Rwanda, efforts to control an ongoing outbreak of Marburg virus disease, a deadly Ebola-like filovirus, continue. The country declared the outbreak on Sept. 27 and had recorded 63 cases and 15 ...

The Marburg virus belongs to the filovirus family, whose best-known representative is the Ebola virus, which notably raged in West Africa between 2014 and 2016, causing the death of more than ...

He has been involved in on-ground filovirus outbreak responses, including the 2004–2005 Marburg virus disease outbreak in Angola—the largest ever recorded—that killed 227 of the 252 people ...

First detected simultaneously in 1967 in Germany's Marburg and Frankfurt and Serbia's Belgrade, the Marburg virus belongs to the Filoviridae family (filovirus), the same as the Ebola virus.

Marburg is a virus from the same family as Ebola. It causes a haemorrhagic fever and has an average fatality rate of 50 per cent, according to the WHO, although rates have been as high as 88 per ...