Marburg virus disease causes people to quickly develop severe illness and fever, which could lead to shock or death. Learn more about the causes, symptoms, and treatment of this illness.

Health officials in Rwanda are dealing with the country’s first outbreak of the Marburg virus, an Ebola-like disease which, if left untreated, has a fatality rate of up to 88%.

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The medical student was to be isolated for 21 days, the incubation period for Marburg virus disease, as a precaution, they said. Image. A fruit bat in 2018 in Uganda.

Health officials in Rwanda are dealing with the country’s first outbreak of the Marburg virus, an Ebola-like disease which, if left untreated, has a fatality rate of up to 88%.