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How Rwanda's rapid response stemmed a Marburg outbreakIn July 2024, Rwanda faced a Marburg virus outbreak among health workers in the capital Kigali, challenging the nation's health system and testing its pandemic response capabilities. For Rwanda, it ...
The outbreak has been traced, tentatively, to three children who ate a bat, the W.H.O. said, and known threats like Ebola and ...
A mysterious illness in Congo, Africa killed over 50 people within 48 hours as health officials race to find the cause.
BUKOBA: IN efforts to control the spread of Marburg Virus Disease (MVD), radio presenters from 14 stations based in the Lake ...
Marburg virus belongs to the genus Marburgvirus in the family Filoviridae and causes a severe hemorrhagic fever, known as Marburg hemorrhagic fever (MHF), in both humans and nonhuman primates.
Since the country officially announced the outbreak last week, ten people have tested positive for Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease similar to Ebola. Of these, nine have died ...
A tin mine in Kigali has been identified as the source of Rwanda’s first Marburg virus outbreak, which killed 15 people and ...
The Ministry of Health has intensified surveillance and screening at all 26 ports of entry into the country in the wake of ...
In the first of the 2 outbreaks, affected children had contact with bats. Further investigations are under way for both ...
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