Rwandan health authorities are struggling to contain the outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus, which has claimed the lives of ...

The Ministry of Health has issued an alert on Marburg virus. In a statement on October 4, 2024, the ministry stated that it ...

While outbreaks of Marburg virus are rare, there have been several in recent years across sub-Saharan Africa. Like many ...

Reuters notes the PCR test, which samples skin lesion swabs, will boost testing in countries with mpox outbreaks. Meanwhile, Ghana has confirmed its first mpox case, though the exact variant is not ...

Media Q&A: Journalists may submit questions to Africa CDC during the briefing by sending their full name and the name of ...

The Israeli military issued fresh evacuation orders early Friday for 35 settlements in southern Lebanon telling residents to ...

WHO has said the risk of the outbreak is “very high at the national level, high at the regional level, and low at the global ...

Gilead Sciences said on Thursday it would donate about 5,000 vials of its antiviral drug remdesivir to the Rwanda Medical ...

Most infected are health care workers treating patients in the capital, but officials fear more cases will emerge ...

Marburg virus disease has killed 11 people and sickened 25 others in Rwanda, which declared an outbreak on Sept. 27.

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

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