Rwanda Deploys Vaccine Against Deadly Marburg Virus

The Ebola-like virus has killed 12 in the central African country.

A medical worker from the Infection Prevention and Control unit wearing full protective equipment carries a meal to an isolation tent housing a man being quarantined after coming into contact in Uganda with a carrier of the Marburg virus, at the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. Ben Curtis/AP Photo

Rwanda has started to vaccinate health care workers against Marburg, a hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola.

Vaccine doses began being administered on Oct. 6 to health care workers and emergency responders at mobile clinics in the central African country, the Rwanda Ministry of Health stated.