Officials previously questioned whether the deadly disease was indeed present in the African country, which had seen 8 ...

Tanzania's president said a sample tested positive for the Marburg virus, which has a fatality rate of up to 88 percent if untreated.

Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan confirmed on Monday that there was a new outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in the ...

Tanzania today confirmed an outbreak of Marburg virus disease in the northwestern Kagera region after one case tested positive for the virus following investigations and laboratory analysis of ...

Tanzania's president has announced an outbreak of Marburg virus, an Ebola-like virus, just a week after her health minister ...

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 ...

A suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus has been detected in northern ... which could include bleeding under the skin, in internal organs, or from orifices such as the mouth, eyes or ears.

A Marburg virus outbreak in Tanzania has ... but a range of vaccines and drug therapies are under development. The virus bears similarities to Ebola. Both the illnesses are rare but can cause ...

Similar to Ebola, the Marburg virus is believed to originate in fruit bats and spreads between humans through close contact with the bodily fluids of infected individuals or contaminated surfaces ...

The Tanzanian government has denied reports by the World Health Organsation (WHO) of a suspected new outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus ... of exposure to the virus were under close monitoring.

There have been nine suspected cases and eight deaths in a suspected Marburg virus outbreak ... who may have been exposed to the virus and are under follow-up. WHO said the Kagera region of ...

A suspected outbreak of Marburg virus disease (MVD ... although several are under development. Early supportive care, including rehydration and symptomatic treatment, has improved survival ...