Marburg virus causes severe viral hemorrhagic fever and 24% to 88% of people who contracted the disease in different outbreaks died. Latest U.S.

The Marburg virus belongs to the same family as Ebola. It causes hemorrhagic fever, which is an especially dangerous disease. The fatality rate can reach up to 88%, ...

Outbreak of Marburg virus hemorrhagic fever -- Angola, October 1, 2004-March 29, 2005. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2005;54:308-309. PubMed. Google Scholar. 10.

Like the closely related Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Marburg is a rare but severe and highly fatal disease caused by a virus in the Filoviridae family (see diagram).The viruses that cause these two ...

Dr. Leana Wen: The Marburg virus disease is caused by the Marburg virus, which is in the same family of viruses as the Ebola virus. Like Ebola, Marburg causes a severe hemorrhagic fever that ...

The 1967 outbreak led to 31 confirmed cases of Marburg virus, starting with laboratory workers but quickly followed by medical personnel who worked on them and family members who cared for them ...

Marburg causes Marburg virus disease, a hemorrhagic fever that can affect the body’s organs and cause bleeding, according to the Centers for Disease Control. ...

Marburg hemorrhagic fever has killed 11 people in Rwanda, health authorities said, as the East African country continues to investigate the source of an outbreak first traced among patients in health ...

Marburg causes Marburg virus disease, a hemorrhagic fever that can affect the body’s organs and cause bleeding, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Marburg virus is a zoonotic virus ...

Another virus found in Africa that causes hemorrhagic fever is Lassa virus, which is an Arenavirus and is native to West Africa. Unlike Ebola and Marburg, the reservoir host of Lassa is a rodent ...

Kigali, Rwanda – Marburg hemorrhagic fever has killed 11 people in Rwanda, health authorities said, as the East African country continues to investigate the source of an outbreak first traced ...