Marburg virus is a fatal disease which can be caused due to close contact with one of the species of fruit bats. Body fluids transferred through unprotected sex or a lesion can cause this disease ...

The Sabin Vaccine Institute has begun a Phase II trial in the US to evaluate its Marburg vaccine, with the first doses being ...

Marburg virus disease is highly virulent and causes haemorrhagic fever. It belongs to the same family as the virus that causes Ebola virus disease. Illness caused by Marburg virus begins abruptly.

The bleeding eye disease, one of the deadliest in the world, has spared global fear and has killed 15 people so far in Rwanda. A warning has been issued to travelers over the spread of three diseases, ...

Serosurveys have expanded our understanding of infectious diseases in Africa, revealing the true burden of pathogens beyond ...

Currently, there are no approved vaccines for Marburg virus disease.

Before finding the source of the cases, scientists first ruled out Ebola and Marburg hemorrhagic viruses ... than one disease could be causing them, since those symptoms cover a broad range of ...

Marburg virus disease (MVD) is a rare but severe hemorrhagic fever that affects humans and non-human primates. It belongs to the same family as the Ebola virus and is equally deadly. The virus was ...