Tanzania announces end of epidemic of Marburg virus, a cousin of Ebola, which also causes hemorrhagic fever. In total, nine cases (eight confirmed and one probable) and six deaths were recorded during the epidemic that was declared on March 21.
There is currently no vaccine or antiviral treatment, but experimental treatments, including blood derivatives, immunotherapies and drug therapies, are being evaluated. The virus takes its name from the German city of Marberg, where it was first identified in 1967.