Devex CheckUp: Cracking the code on Marburg virus

Devex CheckUp: Cracking the code on Marburg virus.

16 FEBRUARY 2023 – Equatorial Guinea announced its first outbreak this week of the rare and deadly Marburg disease — a hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola.

There are no vaccines or antiviral treatments approved for the virus, but there are candidates — two of which have data from phase 1 trials and three others that haven’t reached that stage. Researchers from the Marburg Virus Vaccine Consortium held an emergency meeting on Tuesday to examine the prospect of quickly rolling out clinical trials amid the current outbreak.