Tanzania is grappling with a new outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus disease which has already claimed at least eight lives in the north-western Kagera region.

The Tanzanian government is taking decisive action to combat the resurgence of Marburg virus disease (MVD), implementing ...

The US withdrawal from the WHO threatens core health programmes in Africa. It will weaken the ability of African countries to ...

Experts said the sudden stoppage was a surprise and would set back work on investigating and trying to stop outbreaks ...

The first outbreaks occurred in 1967 in lab workers in Germany and Yugoslavia who were working with African green monkeys imported from Uganda. The virus was identified in a lab in Marburg ...

In a statement, Dr. Richard Dawood, an adviser to the African Travel & Tourism Association, said, "For the vast majority of tourist activities, the risk is virtually zero." ...

THE East African Community (EAC) has expressed its unwavering solidarity with Tanzania and other key stakeholders following ...

Tanzania is witnessing another outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus and has confirmed at least ... from Tanzania and other countries in Africa. The principal secretary for public health and ...

The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has sounded the alarm on the escalating health crises ...

The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has called for "immediate action" to address the "unprecedented convergence of crises" that threaten to undo the decades of progress ...

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is actively supporting the response to an outbreak of Marburg virus in Tanzania’s Kagera region, which is being led by the Ministry of Health. The outbreak was declared ...

Ugandan authorities have begun a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola that has killed one person in ...