Marburg disease, a highly infectious virus which can be fatal in up to 88% of cases without treatment, originates in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact with the bodily fluids ...

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 ...

Image courtesy CDC/Dr. Fred Murphy, Sylvia Whitfield, 1975. A human sample in Tanzania has tested positive for deadly Marburg virus, confirming the disease is present in the African country.

Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan confirmed on Monday that there was a new outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in the East African country. One "confirmed case of Marburg virus marks the ...

A case of the bleeding virus Marburg has been confirmed in Tanzania, a week after authorities denied there was an outbreak. The deadly illness similar to Ebola is highly infectious, and can kill ...

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

GENEVA: Cautioning about the "high risk" of deadly Marburg Virus Disease’s (MVD) further spread in Tanzania, the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday said the suspected virus outbreak had ...

NAIROBI, Jan 15 (Reuters) - A suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus in northwest Tanzania has infected nine people, killing eight of them, the World Health Organization has said, weeks after an ...

One “confirmed case of Marburg virus marks the second outbreak ... The case marks the second outbreak in Tanzania since 2023. Picture: Google Maps WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus ...

DAR ES SALAAM, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Monday confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in the northwest of the country, with one confirmed case so far.

Often, by the time the cause is determined as Marburg, it is too late and they have already contracted the virus. The World Health Organisation said it has offered Tanzania its full assistance ...

Tanzania previously reported an outbreak of Marburg in March 2023 – the country’s first – in the Kagera region, which resulted in nine cases (eight confirmed and one probable) and six deaths ...