Rwanda faced a Marburg virus outbreak among health workers in the capital Kigali, challenging the nation's health system and ...

with both countries working to monitor and contain the virus. Newsweek contacted the WHO by email on Monday, requesting further information about the outbreak. The WHO had initially reported on ...

SEVEN people have tested positive and two have died from a highly contagious strain of Ebola in Uganda, as scientists race to ...

Marburg virus, first recognized in ... [+] 1967, causes a severe type of hemorrhagic fever, which affects humans, as well as non-human primates. Eight people have been killed in a suspected ...

Marburg virus can spread between people through direct contact or via blood and other bodily fluids of infected people.

Tanzania's president has announced an outbreak of Marburg virus, an Ebola-like virus, just a week after her health minister denied that there were any cases in the country. President Samia Suluhu ...

Tanzania’s president says one sample from a remote northern part of the country has tested positive for Marburg disease ...

Eight people have died in Tanzania’s Kagera region following a suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus disease, according to the World Health Organization. The virus, related to Ebola and ...

Tanzania has implemented new health measures following an outbreak of Marburg virus disease in the Kagera region.

Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact with the bodily fluids of infected individuals or with surfaces, such as contaminated bed ...

The WHO had initially reported on January 14 that Marburg had claimed the lives of eight people in Tanzania's Kagera ... confirmed the presence of the virus, which is similar to Ebola, and is ...