Marburg vaccines are set to arrive in Rwanda in the coming days to help protect healthcare workers fighting an outbreak of the deadly haemorrhagic fever. The jabs, developed by the Sabin Vaccine Institute initially to treat Ebola,

The United States shipped an initial batch of vaccines and therapeutic drugs to Rwanda on October 4, 2024, in response to the country's first Marburg virus outbreak, which has so far claimed 11 lives.

Rwanda declared an outbreak of the highly contagious Marburg virus​, a deadly hemorrhagic fever that has no authorized vaccine or treatment.