{"id":7766,"date":"2024-10-02T08:15:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T13:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7766"},"modified":"2024-10-02T08:15:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T13:15:52","slug":"deadly-marburg-virus-scientists-race-to-test-vaccines-in-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/10\/02\/deadly-marburg-virus-scientists-race-to-test-vaccines-in-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly Marburg virus: scientists race to test vaccines in outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-024-03218-3\">Nature<\/a> <strong>There are no approved treatments for the Ebola-like haemorrhagic fever, which is spreading in Rwanda.<\/strong> Researchers are in a race against time to deploy vaccines and treatments against a deadly virus that has exploded in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-024-00994-w\">Rwanda<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of 30 September, the central African country has recorded 27 cases and 9 deaths caused by Marburg virus, a highly deadly relative of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/subjects\/ebola-virus\">Ebola virus<\/a>\u00a0that also causes haemorrhagic fever, with most cases occurring among health-care workers in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/537S4a\">country\u2019s capital Kigali<\/a>. There are no approved therapies or vaccines against Marburg virus. But if the current outbreak continues \u2014 most are small and quickly contained \u2014 health officials and researchers hope to gather valuable data on the safety and potential effectiveness of vaccines and treatments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-024-03218-3\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature There are no approved treatments for the Ebola-like haemorrhagic fever, which is spreading in Rwanda. Researchers are in a race against time to deploy vaccines and treatments against a deadly virus that has exploded in&nbsp;Rwanda. As of 30 September, the central African country has recorded 27 cases and 9 deaths caused by Marburg virus, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines","category-marburg-virus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7767,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7766\/revisions\/7767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}