NPR is reporting dramatic advances in Rwandan healthcare infrastructure, leading to rapid success in stopping the deadly Marburg virus.

For this outbreak, there was the know-how and infrastructure to set up a separate Marburg treatment facility. That’s been a boon for other patients and medical staff, preventing exposure to the virus — which crosses over from bats to humans and can be transmitted through bodily fluids like blood, sweat and diarrhea.

And even though there aren’t approved medications to treat Marburg, patients in Rwanda have received good supportive care for all their symptoms — like the IV fluids critical for symptoms like high fevers, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.

Instead of the 90% fatality rate experienced in past outbreaks, the responders say today it’s almost down to 20%.