Ethiopia reports first outbreak of Marburg, Ebola cousin with no vaccine

Washington Post At least nine people in southern Ethiopia have been infected with the deadly Marburg virus, a clinically similar cousin to Ebola, in the East African country’s first outbreak of the highly contagious disease, the World Health Organization said Friday. Ethiopia’s Health Ministry also confirmed the outbreak. The WHO “is actively supporting Ethiopia to contain the outbreak and treat infected people, and supporting all efforts to address the potential of cross-border spread,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the WHO, said in a post to X.