NINE people have died in an outbreak of an eye-bleeding disease in Tanzania, Africa’s health agency has announced. This ...

Eight people have been killed in a suspected outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus disease in the Kagera region of Tanzania, according to the World Health Organization. Nine cases have been ...

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Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has confirmed a new outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in the East African country ...

The largest outbreak on record occurred in 2005 in Angola, when 329 people died. A fruit bat is seen at Bristol Zoo in England on Wednesday Aug. 31, 2022. Similar to Ebola, the Marburg virus is ...

The World Health Organization says an outbreak of suspected Marburg disease ... Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact with the ...

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 ...

GENEVA: Cautioning about the "high risk" of deadly Marburg Virus Disease’s (MVD) further spread in Tanzania, the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday said the suspected virus outbreak had ...

Suspected Outbreak of Marburg Virus Kills Eight in Tanzania, WHO Says NAIROBI (Reuters) - A suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus in northwest Tanzania has infected nine people, killing eight of ...

One “confirmed case of Marburg virus marks the second outbreak ... The case marks the second outbreak in Tanzania since 2023. Picture: Google Maps WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus ...

NAIROBI, Jan 15 (Reuters) - A suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus in northwest Tanzania has infected nine people, killing eight of them, the World Health Organization has said, weeks after an ...