Marburg

There's not much new news on Marburg, but the magazine Nature has a good discussion on the situation so far.

It might be that the high mortality rate of this outbreak, as compared to previous ones, is due to a new strain of the virus. Marburg's cousin Ebola has numerous strains.
The theory that this outbreak was spread due to infected needles being used on children getting innoculations is horrific.

To make things worse, people are hiding sick family members from health workers- one reason being that they resent interference with their funeral rites, such as drinking the water used to wash the corpse.

You have to wonder why any of them are still on this planet with practices like that. They must have incredible immune systems.