My daughter, her husband and two friends traveled to Uganda in July. They are fine but it’s scary to think what could have been. Marburg is in the same family as Ebola.
Marburg is reported as being much worse than Obloa.
A young second cousin of mine (she was then about 16) traveled to Uganda a few years ago. I was afraid for her safety and prayed until she was home safe. Now, there is no way her parents would have let her go with this plague happening.
Both Ebola and Marburg are zoonotic diseases, meaning that they are always present in some animal population, probably fruit bats, in Africa.
We have a zoonotic disease in the US, that is 100% fatal if you are exposed and don't know it. For some reason, though, people don't seem especially concerned about rabies. But if you must catch a zoonosis without knowing when you are exposed, your chances are better with Ebola than with rabies.