In 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.

“I saw a message from our team telling me Marburg had broken out in Kigali,” Nsanzimana recalls in an internal communication on how Rwanda managed the Marburg virus. “I couldn’t believe it was true.

A unified response to the global threat posed by a Marburg virus disease outbreak in Rwanda offers reason for hope — and lessons about safeguarding health equity in a time of ascendant isolationism.

According to the latest information from the Ministry of Health in Rwanda provided on Oct. 7, there are 56 reported cases of the Marburg virus. So far, 12 deaths have been reported.

Rwanda Marburg Virus Outbreak: The East African country confirmed its first cases of the disease, a viral hemorrhagic fever that can cause death, among some patients, in mid-September.

Rwanda's outbreak of the Marburg virus was declared over this week by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Rwandan government. The announcement by WHO comes after weeks without any new ...

The Marburg outbreak in Rwanda is officially over, health authorities said, putting an end to the Central African country’s first bout with the highly lethal Ebola-like virus.

File Photo by Salvatore Di Nolfi/EPA-EFE Dec. 20 (UPI) -- The World Health Organization declared on Friday that the outbreak of the Marburg Virus Disease in Rwanda is over.

An outbreak of Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) in Rwanda has officially been declared over by the Government of Rwanda, with no new cases recorded since the last patient tested negative on 7 November ...

Rwanda has declared an end to the country's Marburg virus outbreak following the recovery of the last patient 42 days ago, Health Minister Sabin Nsanzimana told a news conference on Friday.

Health Deadly outbreak of Marburg, or ‘bleeding eye virus,’ leads to travel advisory Get the latest update on the Ebola-like virus, which has infected dozens and killed 15 in Rwanda ...