At least eight people in Tanzania have died in an outbreak of the highly lethal Marburg virus, according to global health officials. The World Health Organization (WHO) said the Ebola-like virus ...

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Body fluids transferred through unprotected sex or a lesion can cause this disease to pass on from one person to another. Bleeding (hemorrhage) fever is a result of this disease. Marburg virus’s ...

The Marburg virus is transmitted to humans by fruit bats and is spread by direct contact with the bodily fluids of infected people or with surfaces and materials. It causes hemorrhagic fever with ...

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

Marburg virus was first documented in 1967 when a ... "So now there’s this chain of five people with the disease, four of whom died," says Nichol. When the tissues were sequenced in Atlanta ...

This epidemic was caused by Marburg virus, which together with Ebola virus ... However, there are certain groups of people who are more threatened by these infections than others.

More information about FCDO travel advice can be found here. But what exactly is the Marburg virus? Marburg virus disease (MVD), a severe and often fatal illness similar to Ebola, is caused by the ...

On January 20, Tanzania declared an outbreak of Marburg virus disease, which ended on March 13. Currently, there are no approved vaccines for Marburg virus disease. For the U.S. clinical trial ...