Marburg Virus: Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan has declared an outbreak of Marburg virus, confirming a single case in the northwestern region of Kagera after a meeting with WHO ...

Transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of the Marburg virus. Marburg virus, first recognized in 1967, causes a severe type of hemorrhagic fever, which affects humans, as well as non-human primates.

On Aug. 6, the Ministry of Health in Guinea notified the World Health Organization of its first-ever confirmed case of the deadly Marburg virus, according to a WHO news release. The infected person ...

FILE - A medical worker carries a meal to an isolation tent housing a man being quarantined after coming into contact with a carrier of the Marburg Virus, at the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, ...

On Jan. 20, Tanzania declared an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus disease in Biharamulo District in the northwestern part of the country’s Kagera Region. The announcement comes after public health ...

Psaki is a former U.S. coordinator for global health security of the National Security Council. On Saturday, Jan. 11, as we entered the final week of the Biden-Harris administration, I got a call ...

Dec. 20 (UPI) --The World Health Organization declared on Friday that the outbreak of the Marburg Virus Disease in Rwanda is over. The WHO made the declaration as 42 days had passed since the last ...

The Tanzanian government declared an outbreak of Marburg virus on Jan. 20 after one adult female became ill on Dec. 9 and died on Dec. 16. Officials identified a second victim in January who died Jan.

Guinea today declared the end of the Marburg virus disease outbreak having recorded no new cases over the past 42 days—two incubation periods, or the time between infection and the onset of symptoms.

Rwanda's outbreak of the Marburg virus was declared over this week by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Rwandan government. The announcement by WHO comes after weeks without any new reported ...

Six people have been killed in Rwanda in an outbreak of Marburg virus, a highly infectious hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola, the country's health ministry said on Saturday. The highly virulent ...