The suspected outbreak in Tanzania’s northeastern Kagera region – where the country’s first known Marburg cases were diagnosed last March – has raised concerns because the geographical ...

The World Health Organisation has confirmed an outbreak of suspected Marburg Virus Disease in Tanzania. The WHO who disclosed ...

The WHO said Tuesday that a suspected outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in Tanzania had killed eight people, warning that ...

It noted that the risk at the national level is high due to multiple concerning factors, including the location of the Kagera region as a transit hub. WHO explained that on 10 January, it received ...

A SUSPECTED outbreak of a deadly ‘eye bleeding disease’ has sparked fears of a wider spread. So far, the Ebola-like illness ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Tuesday, January 14, that a suspected outbreak of the deadly Marbu ...

The area is known to harbour fruit bats, which are natural carriers of the virus. The Kagera region’s location near the borders with Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

The WHO warned that the risk of further spread in Tanzania and the region was “high” due to Kagera’s location as a transit hub, with significant cross-border movement towards neighbouring ...

Epidemiological records indicate that Tanzania has previously experienced Marburg outbreaks, with the most recent incident in March 2023 in the same Kagera region. The area’s complex geographical ...

GENEVA: Cautioning about the high risk of deadly Marburg Virus Disease’s further spread in Tanzania, the World Health ...

The Ministry of Health has sent a team of experts to Kagera region to collect specimens and conduct laboratory ... WHO has expressed concern about the geographical spread, noting that Kagera borders ...