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Marburg virus can spread between people through direct contact or via blood and other bodily fluids of infected people, including contaminated bedding or clothing. File | Photo Credit: AP “A suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus in northwest Tanzania has infected 9 people, killing 8 of them,” the World Health Organization (WHO) has said, weeks…
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Image used for representative purpose only. | Photo Credit: AP The United States government completed an initial shipment of vaccine doses and therapeutic drugs for Marburg disease to Rwanda on Oct. 4, Thierry Roels, U.S. CDC Country Director in Rwanda told Reuters on Saturday (October 5, 2024). The U.S. government is also working closely with…
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In this Oct. 8, 2014 photo, a medical worker from the Infection Prevention and Control unit wearing full protective equipment carries a meal to an isolation tent housing a man being quarantined after coming into contact in Uganda with a carrier of the Marburg Virus, at the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. | Photo…