Whenever a Marburg outbreak pops up it’s alarming — as it is a filovirus similar to Ebola with a mortality rate of up to 88%.
But a key difference between Ebola and Marburg outbreaks is that the Zaire strain of Ebola has a licensed vaccine and approved treatments, whereas there's neither a licensed vaccine nor treatments approved for Marburg.
Rwanda is nearly two weeks into its response, after reporting its first detection of the Marburg disease on Sept. 27, which had already spread to seven of the country’s 30 districts.
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Sara Jervingsarajerving
Sara Jerving is a Senior Reporter at Devex, where she covers global health. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, VICE News, and Bloomberg News among others. Sara holds a master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she was a Lorana Sullivan fellow. She was a finalist for One World Media's Digital Media Award in 2021; a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists in 2018; and she was part of a VICE News Tonight on HBO team that received an Emmy nomination in 2018. She received the Philip Greer Memorial Award from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2014.
