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

The WHO and the CDC coordinated well when faced with viral outbreaks. This is no time to demolish a well-oiled machine.

What is this deadly bleeding eye virus that is spreading rapidly across Tanzania and has made WHO issue an alarm. Read on to ...

It can also infect non-human primates like apes and monkeys. In fact, the Marburg virus is named for a town in Germany where monkeys spread the disease to humans decades ago. Scientists caught the ...

Similar to Ebola, the Marburg virus is believed to originate in fruit ... the first cases were recorded in Germany and Serbia (then part of Yugoslavia) in 1967 when laboratory workers handling ...

Named after Marburg, Germany, which suffered an outbreak in 1967, the virus has historically been linked to research involving infected monkeys. The disease has since remained rare but lethal ...

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 ...

An outbreak of the Marburg virus has killed nine people in Tanzania, Africa's health agency said Thursday, up from eight ...

Two districts in the northwest Kagera region of Tanzania have reported outbreaks of the Marburg virus, known for its high fatality rate. Now the World Health Organisation (WHO) is investigating a ...

The virus causes a severe viral hemorrhagic fever, according to the World Health Organization. It was first detected in 1967 during twin outbreaks in Marburg and Frankfurt, Germany, and Belgrade ...

a family that includes both Marburg and Ebola, also remains the largest in a high-income country: in 1967, a total of 31 people fell ill with MVD in Germany (including in the virus’s eponymous ...

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