Santa Barbara, California, Dec. 12 -- Over the past week, Direct Relief has delivered 741 shipments of requested medical aid to 49 U.S. states and territories and 19 countries worldwide. The shipments contained 6 million defined daily doses of medication.

Medications and supplies shipped this week included rare disease treatments, personal protective equipment, nutritional products, antibiotics, and more.

An outbreak of Marburg Virus Disease, a highly dangerous hemorrhagic fever in the same family of viruses as Ebola, has killed at least eight people in southern Ethiopia - the country's first outbreak.

Thirteen cases have been identified thus far, including the eight deaths.

Because MVD has no approved treatment or vaccine, doctors fo...