No deaths in the last three weeks. Two patients remaining in treatment and stable.
The Rwanda outbreak had a case fatality rate of only 22.7%. Marburg outbreaks can have case fatality rates as high as ~90%. And two patients were successfully extubated- a first in Africa.
Genomic analysis traced the outbreak to a single zoonotic transmission in a cave where the index case was infected by a fruit bat. Fruit bats are the reservoir for the virus.
The outbreak isn't declared over yet. It takes 42 days of no new cases for a Marburg outbreak to be officially over. But things are trending in that direction.