Infected patients often become 'ghost-like', developing deep ... weeks from exposure to the first appearance of symptoms. As the early stages of Marburg virus infection resemble other conditions ...

It can also be transmitted through contaminated surfaces and materials like bedding and clothing. Currently, there is no approved vaccine or antiviral treatment for the Marburg virus. However ...

A deadly virus which leaves patients with bleeding eyes has swept parts of a country following an outbreak. Tanzania president Samia Suluhu Hassan declared an outbreak after one case of Marburg ...

An untreatable Ebola-like virus ... Marburg haemorrhagic fever, it is very difficult to distinguish from other tropical illnesses, such as Ebola and malaria. Infected patients become 'ghost ...

The president of Tanzania has confirmed a case of the Marburg virus in the country. Marburg belongs to the same family of illnesses as Ebola and can cause death in up to 88% of cases. President ...

Health chiefs have sounded the alarm over a suspected outbreak of the deadly “eye-bleeding disease” Marburg virus after eight people died. Symptoms include aches and pains, high fever ...

Tanzania’s president has confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus disease (MVD), a highly infectious virus like Ebola that can be fatal in up to 88 per cent of cases without treatment.

Advertisement The last Marburg outbreak in Tanzania came in March 2023 when six people died from the virus in the Bukoba district. "[We] would like to assure the international organizations ...

Twenty-five other samples were negative, she said. Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact with the bodily fluids of infected ...

report of a suspected new outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg virus in the north-west of the country. On Tuesday, the global health agency said a total of nine suspected cases were reported over ...