Marburg virus
(enveloped virus)

Marburg virus is a filamentous, enveloped RNA virus of the family Filoviridae that can be elongated or curved.

Infections with the Marburg virus cause haemorrhagic fever and organ damage.

The Nile fruit bat Rousettus aegyptiacus is suspected to be one of the reservoirs and vectors of the Marburg virus [1].It can be transmitted from person to person through close contact with blood or body fluids of infected persons [2].

Current situation:

On 27 September 2024, the Ministry of Health in Rwanda announced an outbreak of the Marburg virus. Within a month, 36 cases had been reported, killing 11 people [3].

On 2 October, two people from Rwanda were isolated in Hamburg because one of them had had contact with people infected with the Marburg virus at a health care facility. One day later, it was announced that the tests for the Marburg virus had come back negative and that at no point had there been any danger to fellow passengers on the plane and train [4].

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