A rare, highly contagious Ebola-like virus has claimed eight lives in Rwanda, and U.S. health officials are closely monitoring the outbreak. Marburg virus causes a rare hemorrhagic fever that has no authorized vaccine or treatment.

Rwanda says that eight people have died so far from the highly contagious Marburg virus. The announcement comes just days after the country declared an outbreak of the deadly hemorrhagic fever that has no authorized vaccine or treatment.

So far 26 cases have been confirmed, and eight of the sickened people have died, Health Minister Sabin Nsanzimana said on Sunday night. Get top local stories in Connecticut delivered to you every morning. Sign up for NBC Connecticut's News Headlines ...

WHO's Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus informed on the social media platform X that the World Health Organization (WHO) is scaling up its support and working with the Rwandan authorities to help stop the spread of the virus.

Rwanda’s Minister of Health, Sabin Nsanzimana, during a broadcast on Rwanda Television, revealed that six people have died and 26 people have been affected due to the Marburg Virus Disease. The country is witnessing an outbreak.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is preparing medical support to Rwanda to help the country stop the outbreak of Marburg virus disease (MVD), a haemorrhagic fever which has so far claimed the lives of nine people.

Six people have died, and 20 others are being treated for Marburg virus disease in Rwanda. This is the first-ever outbreak of the deadly hemorrhagic disease in the country.

Six people have died from an outbreak of Marburg virus in Rwanda, the health minister has announced. Sabin Nsanzimana said most of the victims were healthcare workers in a hospital intensive care unit. Twenty cases have been identified since the outbreak was confirmed on Friday.

Kigali, RWANDA -- Rwanda says eight people have died so far from the Ebola-like and highly contagious Marburg virus, just days after the country declared an outbreak of the deadly hemorrhagic fever that has no authorized vaccine or treatment.

The deadly Marburg virus is believed to originate in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact.