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Marburg virus outbreak in Rwanda – what you need to know

By Manal Mohammed, Senior Lecturer, Medical Microbiology, University of Westminster

Rwanda is in the midst of its first outbreak of Marburg virus – an often fatal disease with symptoms similar to Ebola. So far, 46 cases have been recorded and 12 deaths. The source of the outbreak is still not known.

Seven hundred doses of an experimental vaccine against the virus have just been shipped from the US to Rwanda. The vaccine…

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